{"id":451,"date":"2009-08-07T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegobutton.net\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2010-01-01T23:13:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T04:13:45","slug":"the-sorry-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/the-sorry-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sorry Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our rehearsal room for La Cage<\/em>, we have some very apologetic people. So much so, in fact, that our director decided early on that every time someone says “I’m sorry,” they owe him five cents. Naturally, being stage managers, Paul and I were put in charge of keeping track of the debt.<\/p>\n

BACKSTORY:
\nI have been working more with Google Spreadsheets lately, which I have grown to love as a result of my involvement with the game Battleground Europe<\/a>. As a member of the Axis high command, I was first introduced to Google Docs because all the data that keeps the officers organized is contained in some very complex and fascinating spreadsheets. Whenever I meet somebody who has better paperwork than I do, my first instinct is to steal all their tricks, so I had great admiration for the Italian gentleman who created them, who goes by the name of Lince. When Lince retired from the high command, I offered to take on the management of the spreadsheets if for no other reason than to get a chance to play with them and learn from them. Lince and I are still in the process of training (the time difference from here to Italy being a bit of an obstacle at times), but I have learned so much already.<\/p>\n

So back to my story.
\nWe began on the first day keeping track of the Sorry fines on a couple of post-its, but of course this wouldn’t work. I also wanted a solution that would be able to be edited in real time by Paul and I, even simultaneously. Google Docs is the simplest way I know of to do this.<\/p>\n

So I created a little spreadsheet that has all the actors’ names (and mine, and our director’s), and a column for each day of rehearsal. It totals how much each person owes, and at the bottom displays the total money raised.<\/p>\n

You can take a look at it here<\/a> to see how we’re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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