Dad called me last night to present our bill for the group vacation. He explained a very complex formula he used in a spreadsheet to figure out that we owed $655.99. I tried to take notes. There was a per head charge of $135.20 adjusted by some factor that could be minus $40 up to plus $50. It had to do with who got what room and how many people were in the room as to what factor got applied. The factors ranged from 3 to 10.

“I wish I could just e-mail this to you,” Dad said, “but I don’t know how to send attachments.” I told him sending attachments was pretty easy. Just look for an “Enclose” button and pick the file you want to attach. He called me early this morning to find out if I had received the attachment, and he was surprised I was still in bed. I explained I had been up to 2 moving Wart downtown.

Dad has as much appreciation for a Mac OS X server as I have for accounting.

The interesting thing was that the Yahoo e-mail I received presented the table all lined up neatly in the e-mail instead of as an attachment, so I’m not sure how Dad sent the table. I don’t recall getting anything like this. See this posting on Tucker.

P.S.

Like any good accountant, I accused Dad of hiding the truth with his complex formulas. Dad is really a compassionate conservative socialist at heart, and is drawing from disposable income accordingly.