Balance

So, I just spent the last 3 hours (plus atleast 3 hours last week) balancing my check book. For the first time in at least a decade. I'm almost positive the last time I tried my hand at it, I was a 20 year old college junior taking an accounting class from a Ms. Jean Hartman, or something like that. The only thing I learned in that class is that it was a bad idea to open a grocery store in the 1970s. Seriously. That's it. "Hard times. Hard to pay yourself. Hard to pay your employees."