Into the clouds
Sep. 13th, 2008 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisFor a while now, my brother has been saying that PC's are seeing their final years. All computing will be online sooner than later. Initially, I thought he was wrong and now not so much.
When I was offline for a day and a half, I could not work or play. Or look up a phone number. Or check my main calendar. Or find much of anything. If all my computers die and I am forced to go to the library to log on to one of theirs I can find pretty much everything I need - info in back mail, financial info in Mint, phone numbers, calendar stuff, entertainment and work stuff.
Clearly I have turned the corner and this morning I took another step. Eons ago, I tracked my finances in Quicken. Then one year they fucked up an update and Microsoft came out with a decent version of Money and I switched and I've been dutifully keeping everything in Money every since. But... now that logging onto each account is so easy and I track the active ones daily instead of waiting for a monthly statement and I can way more easily aggregate the info into Mint, the times I open up Money and bring it up to speed are few and far between.
Today I gave it a shot and it's just too much trouble. I finally gave up. I went to Mint and exported all my transactions into a spreadsheet. Took nearly one second and provides me all of the offline detail I will ever need. Goodbye Microsoft Money.
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Laundry, however, still needs to be done offline. It's doing now. And I'm looking forward to another meatloaf sandwich like I had yesterday.
Happy Saturday.
I hope everyone in Ike's path is ok.
When I was offline for a day and a half, I could not work or play. Or look up a phone number. Or check my main calendar. Or find much of anything. If all my computers die and I am forced to go to the library to log on to one of theirs I can find pretty much everything I need - info in back mail, financial info in Mint, phone numbers, calendar stuff, entertainment and work stuff.
Clearly I have turned the corner and this morning I took another step. Eons ago, I tracked my finances in Quicken. Then one year they fucked up an update and Microsoft came out with a decent version of Money and I switched and I've been dutifully keeping everything in Money every since. But... now that logging onto each account is so easy and I track the active ones daily instead of waiting for a monthly statement and I can way more easily aggregate the info into Mint, the times I open up Money and bring it up to speed are few and far between.
Today I gave it a shot and it's just too much trouble. I finally gave up. I went to Mint and exported all my transactions into a spreadsheet. Took nearly one second and provides me all of the offline detail I will ever need. Goodbye Microsoft Money.
--
Laundry, however, still needs to be done offline. It's doing now. And I'm looking forward to another meatloaf sandwich like I had yesterday.
Happy Saturday.
I hope everyone in Ike's path is ok.
