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Bob who?
Bob 's your uncle?
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If Bob married my Auntie Anne who is the sister of my Mum, does that make Bob my uncle?
yup yup
Okay then I do have an Uncle Bob as he is married to my Auntie Anne who is also my mum's sister. Cool beans.
...It doesn't have the old MS "Bob" personal assistant, does it?
No i do not think so
Edit think only has one h
COMPLAINT: ARGHHHHHH I distinctly remember pulling a $100 bill from my "Mad Money" compartment in my wallet and put it in the regular money compartment, to force me to remember to break it when I got to the bank next. I forgot to go to the bank yesterday. This morning I checked my wallet and it has 2 dollars in it. Somewhere yesterday I paid for an item with a $100 bill and the clerk didn't notice it. (or worse yet, did notice it.)
Moral of story: NEVER NEVER NEVER keep a $100 bill in the regular compartment.
I learned this 50 years ago. 
NON_COMPLAINT: AHHHHHHH
Found my $100. 
At first I thought it was senility that caused me to pass a $100 bill as a $1 bill. But it turns out that it's senility that caused me to read my spreadsheet incorrectly. I keep a very detailed computer spreadsheet of all my income and outgo. Cash, credit cards, checks, automatic deductions, coins in coinbox, everything! (can you say compulsive?) And the spread sheet was 100% accurate. Unfortunately, when I looked at it this morning to judge how much I could spend each week until my next Social Security deposit, I was looking at the "March" page instead of the "April" page. The "Total Cash On-hand" field in March just happened to be exactly $100 more than the amount in April. Silly me! Slap forehead! Bang head on wall! Stop panicing! Blush! 
Sorry folks, nothing to see here, move along. 
Moral of story: When you're 70 years old don't rely on what you "distinctly remember". Trust your spreadsheet!
I learned this today. 
i had an Auntie Ann. she wasn't married to Bob, she was married to Eugene.
distinctly minty. my senility, don't remember where 'distinctly minty' came from. gonna be nuts all day trying to remember.
Dr House!! thanks
(uncloak)
Still here. A little touch of mental laryngitis.
(cloak)
I used Microsoft Money. 2004 Deluxe. Never had the money to upgrade past that, and now they no longer make it. But it still works for me. I itemize what I spend at the market even. Download statements from my credit union. It's a bit long in the tooth, as they say, but it still works. It has some hiccups now and then. Like when I download statements, if there are some that were already downloaded, it makes a new entry. Not always, but sometimes. Then I go crazy trying to figure out why my balance is less than what the online statement claims, until I see two of the same items on the leger. But I like using it. I can see how much I've spent on food items, how much I've spent at, say, Lowe's, etc. The file is getting large, though. But I keep in on the SSD, so it loads pretty quick.
Dana
I hope that gets better!
Dana
Thanks for the description. I tried using a commercial product but found it too complicated and as you pointed out, sometimes unreliable with the automatic posting processes. So I started building my own spreadsheet using the free product OpenOffice. I started out simple and gradually made it more sophisticated as I learned how to sum columns, link fields to other columns, calculate average expenditures and calculate under & over budget fields, pass fields between separate pages of the document, pass end of year totals from one document to a new document, and create a single page summary. It's been a learning experience but it has helped me keep my meager financial activities under control. I even use it to calculate expected major adventure expenses and graph my automobile milage and cost per gallon of gasoline. I even have a column that calculates what my bank balance would be if I were to pay off all my credit cards. I try to keep that a positive number.
The only problem is that I have to enter all data manually, I do no automatic parsing of credit card statements. Every evening I pull all my receipts from my wallet and enter the receipt totals into an appropriate column along with a two or three word descriptions of where and what the cost was for. Then when credit card statements or bank statements come I check their balance with my spreadsheet and panic if they don't match. Usually 10 or 15 minutes later though I have it figured out. Usually the problem is that my spreadsheet is more up-to-date than the statement and they haven't posted things that I've already accounted for. As for cash, my receipts (white paper) are as important to me as my green paper (money) and I keep them in the same safe place in my wallet as my green paper. But it's things like road tolls, tips, and places that don't give receipts that cause me the most trouble. It forces me to go through my day remembering where I went. I even count my coin change at the end of the day and account for it in the spreadsheet. Although I use my coin box as a flexible pot to sometimes make my totals balance if I'm unable to actually resolve the problem any other way.
romulans?!
...words of wisdom.
I rarely carry much in cash with me at all. Was mugged once, and where I live I sometimes have to pass through a shady area of town to get home. If they get 5 - 10$ out of me, fine. I'm good with that.
Of course now that we are in the "yard sale" season here, it's rough. Yeah there are those "no name" ATMs in corner convenience stores, but they rip you off 4$ for access fees for each transaction. Maybe not much to a tech pro Pro who earns a comfortable salary or a pro athlete who makes millions (and why would they be shopping yard sales when they can afford, say a lounge chair, that would set me back 6 - 8 months worth of rent?) but to someone like myself on a meagre SS cheque, it's significant enough to not bother with.
...a whole city?
...summer making a short appearance here. 75° Yesterday, 81° today, 85° tomorrow and Thursday before the bottom falls out and we go back to mid 50s and wet on Friday through the weekend (naturally, it's the weekend, why would anyone expect otherwise?). True, I have every day free, but most of my friends and associates I get together with don't.
Got to 65f here, yesterday and today. Tomorrow, rain all day, so it will be cooler.
Dana
Add a new column to your spreadsheet...single character, empty or "R" (for reconciled). When you see the empty value, it will help avoid panic. Plus, if a lot of time goes by and you still see empty values for checks, you can start to panic again. Especially if it's a check that was sent to pay a bill. But, you can also check into it. (no pun intended).
Dana
Amazon.com is slow to ship computer peripherals. Next time, I'll order importaint peripherals and devices from another online store.
Yep, got one of those for every entry. Very handy for finding the discrepancies between my totals and various bank and credit card statements.
I keep monthly and yearly totals on doctor bills, prescriptions, gasoline costs, total current credit availability, total current credit debt, checking totals, savings totals, available cash on hand, grocery costs, car maintenance costs, insurance costs, total income, total expenses, and available budget slop. Based on the time I devote to it, it's apparently my hobby!
If I had devoted this much care to my money when I was making lots of it, I wouldn't be needing to devote this much time to it now. 
After four years of developing this spreadsheet I've got it just about perfect for me. The thing that keeps me from adding more features is that I'm running out of room to keep my monthly records down to one screen full. I have a sheet for each month, a summary sheet for the year, a set of milage and gasoline cost graphs, and major holiday and adventure planning sheets. Then at the end of the year I duplicate the yearly summary and the last month of the previous year and empty their values. Then as the new year progresses, I create a new month sheet when needed. I usually don't make major changes to the design of the sheets except during the switch to the new year.
Years back I used to use Borland's Quattro Pro. Very functional. I did programming with that software for someone. It was pretty extensive. They no longer make that. I started getting the MS Office Suite and got used to that. But I haven't done as much programming with it as I did back then. I'm more involved in database programming. That was what I did on the job. With MS Visual FoxPro. Of course, MS dropped that...and kept that dog, Access! I still don't get it. But I've been working with MS SQL Server, mostly on my website. The website is entirely data-driven. Now if only I can get a bunch of vendors that are driven. I have a new one and an old one that is returning, so it's looking up again. I hope.
Dana
...ugh FF being a PITA tonight. Came home opened it up to check emails and just got a perpetual swirly in the tab until it timed out. Tried again. same result. Checked cookies & cache that was all fine. Shut it down restarted it and then checked task manager to find the previous session was still hung up in memory. Checked my connectivity and everything was fine.
When I tried to clear it in TM, an error would pop up saying that the action couldn't be taken . Ended up starting the system twice (one restart one full shutdown and startup) before finally getting it to work again.
Annoying.
Very reluctant to update as every time I do so it seems to lose some of my saved logins, plus as I understand, If I update from the version I am using, a lot of my plugins & such will no longer work.
Kind of a rotten way to end to what was a very nice day all around.
Isn't Quattro Pro part of the Word Perfect office apps from Corel, or has that completelt died? I thought it was still offered when I last went theer for a Painter upgrade.
rainy day. groan my butt is dragging today.
different tea this morninng. green tea with pomegranate. box doesnt say decaf
tee hee, my ship/receive cart is not a stealthy cart. can hear someone wheeling it all the way down the hallway.
hallway and corridor same thing?
anyone and anybody mean the same thing?
they turned off the radio. it's a rock n roll-less morning.
YAWNULUSS