Expensive Couple of Days Part 3

So on... Monday.

*The days all sort of run together

I had a HUGE roster, 

although I only had 31 students.

There were 150 students registered.

And that meant I had an 82 page roster.

And 25 exam answer sheets.

I've always just popped it into

the office high speed scanner and

emailed it up to the home office.

But now I don't have access to that.

We have a scanner at the house though.

But it turns out it only does ONE page

at a time.

And each one is a separate file.

I ended up with 115 individual files.

I spent about 4 hours

scanning all the files

and then trying to figure out how

to stick them together in one document.

No dice.

I gave up and went out

to look at a new car.

Tuesday rolled around and I still needed

to send up my roster.

I got the brilliant idea overnight to just

run it over to Staples and scan and email

it from there.

I even remembered to bring my flash drive.

After about 10 minutes of scanning,

I ended up with 2 files.

And then the machine figured up the bill.

$57.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

NO WAY!

So I cancelled the transaction and 

walked over to the other side of the 

store and picked out a home / office

scanner, regular priced $200 on sale

for $119.99.

Bought it and brought it home.

While I was setting it up on my

kitchen table and figuring out 

how to use it,

I emailed my boss to ask if I

could expense it.

He emailed me right back and said

"Return it.  I'll order you one from

the company since they have them

in inventory."

I finished scanning

(ended up only being able to do

30 pages at a time, ending up with

4 files.)  Then I tried to email them.

The program I was using wouldn't send

more than 3 files at a time.

Then it turned out more than one file

at a time was too big for it to handle.

So hour and hours later I was finally

finished sending up all my paperwork.

Whew!

And then I boxed it all back up

and took it back to Staples and

got my money back.

And then I met Rod at the dealership

and we picked up our new car!

So although it was POTENTIALLY

an expensive day, it ended up being FREE!

(Although who knows when the scanner

will actually show up...  I'm watching my

UPS box...)

I "think" this might be the end

of the run of expensive days...

Fingers crossed.