Afternoon all.
Since I practice what I preach, I'll be taking a few hours off from work this evening to get my meds adjusted by my psychiatrist.
If they ever come up with a drug - aside from Monster Energy Drinks - that would let me be Obsessive/Compulsive ONLY during work hours, and switch off instantly when it's time to go home, I'd be a happy camper.
Boss: "Can you work late tonight?"
me: "Sorry; can't. Life kicks in at 5:00 sharp. Doctor's orders."
As if. They hire folks like me because we're workaholics with OCD. Throw enough Twinkies, Sani-Wipes and frappuccinos our way, and we'll work until our brains melt.
posted by Cthulhu @ 2:48 PM
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They do...it's called a "Wife and Kids"
Oh...and I'M NUMBER 1...I'M NUMBER 1....I'M NUMBER 1!!!!
CAN YOU FEEEEEEL THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!
Yep.
Do you happen to know where Quicken hides reconciliation reports, by the way? I don't mean the most recent one, I mean ones from months in the past.
I need them. Now!
Nope. hell, I can't even get MS Works to load on my new hard drive. All I get is the MS Media stuff. Can't finger it out.
I have a wife but no kids.
And she keeps stranger hours than I do sometimes. :)
Dianna,
I think in the Quicken folder under program files. There, or My Documents, unless you've saved them in an odd place previously.
Try creating a new report (not necessarily reconciliation) and see where it goes.
Do a search
So, isn't this the same as preaching hate to children? After all, one of the testimonials says it's a wonderful way to teach the family values of Democrats...and if Howard Dean is to be their leader and spolesman, then are those really the values to teach your children?
And are they really so desperate that registering illegal aliens, felons and dead people aren't enough, they have to come out with pahetic children's books.
just sayin is all
http://littledemocrats.net/index.html
I love teh Twinkies, too, Sulla :)
Ottava,
Since I don't know what thread you'll be looking at, I'll post this in the top one.
You, of course, are completely correct about the event at the Newark Airport. I stand justly chastened and am duly repentant. I will endeavor to ensure that the situation is never repeated. I humbly ask your forgiveness. A small token of my regret should be on its way to you.
Humbly yours,
Padraig J. O'Furnijur
oh...my...heck.
Finally got the time to download the TEH-TV promo.
Laughed my pasty white tuchus off.
Well done, sir!
OK VBSers and gerbils everywhere, since it's Frischmas eve, here's my shot at the "12 Days of Frischmas." Since it's a repetitive song, I
will just cut to the chase:
...
(ahem)
On the twelfth day of Frischmas, li'l Debbie gave to me:
twelve turds a-flinging
eleven colleagues leaving
ten careers a-tanking
nine monkeys dancing
eight hallucinations
seven restraining orders
six drunken binges
five personalitieeeeeeeeees
four suicide notes
three sockpuppets
two nights in jail
...and a blog full of vodka cRAzEe!
Ha! I have defeated Quicken!
I saved the printed reconciliations. I just needed to look in the right file in the teetering pile on my desk.
Did I mention that I'm a genius? On alternate Wednesdays, anyway.
Off to martial arts tonight.
O-muse! O-muse! O-muse!
Diana,
A quick look at some of the Quicken support forums reveals the answer - "You can't". I don't think Quicken actually saves any of the reports, unless you specifically export the file.
If you are trying to create a report on uncleared transactions from a previous period, you can try adjusting the date range from the standard Reconciliation Report function.
Paddy, that sounds right. Have I mentioned that Quicken is a disaster of a program?
Uncleared wasn't my problem - it was just getting all the transactions that cleared in a month. June, in this case.
The Trustees are used to seeing things a certain way. If it's not that way, they get a bit fussy.
O'muse!
Huzzah!
Barkeep! Three fingers of your best to my creative friend at table number 2 - and an 8 count of WTF Vodka® for the dyke cryin' in her pinot noir at the left end of the bar.
A quick bit for a quiet wednesday
(to the tune of "Complicated")
I had so much on my mind
I thought maybe I'd unwind
Troll on some obnoxious right wing blog
and the hog
Mouth full of paste
his family's a waste
their deaths wouldn't faze
I typed in a haze
But some folks got pissed
they booed and they hissed you see
tell me
How could I have known that my IP could be located
Believe me
if I knew I could be tracked I wouldn't act so stalkertated
What to do now
lost my dog
lost my car
lost my job
lost my mind
I'm the laughingstock of humankind
I freaked in my hometown, now I'm about to be incarcerated
Oh, no, noooo...
Diana,
Your best bet from this point forward (assuming you have to stick with Quicken - saints preserve us) is to export each month's reconciliation report as a .txt file, .csv file, etc. You can even import it into Excel and work some creative magic.
Sulla sounds like a Game Programmer...
Boy am I glad to be out of the BS business
Bon après-midi, gerbils de camarade. Et pour vous Eastsiiiiiiders dans la hizzle, yo, bonsoir agréable.
This is my first chance to get caught-up here since early a.m.; I've been chasing around most of today doing the "freelancer's hustle".
I'm dealing with a somewhat moribund local economy, so I've had to get creative and look for odd niche markets for myself. (In addition to the stuff you're all aware of, I've got a pretty wide-ranging "traditional" skill set, too.)
I'm identifying some very interesting opportunities.
SBH (from previous thread) - Got some (hopefully) entertaining ideas for DHD-related silliness; please be patient. (The folks here deserve better than clumsily-repurposed drivel from my Dead Project Archives.™)
Rather than Court Composer, I'd much prefer to be Minister of Propaganda. Hey, I'm an ambitious guy.
And it looks way cooler on a business card.
Sulla - Thanks; glad you enjoyed it!
Sorry Staci, I knew a bit about Great Plains back in the pre-Microsoft days, but haven't evaluated it in recent years. It used to be a great program with lots of programming hooks for integration with other apps and customization.
QuickBooks has direct export to Excel for pretty much all of its reports. This is a feature I've been whining loudly for years that should be incorporated into Quicken, but would Inuit listen? NoooOOOOOOooo...
sinner,
network security software.
SQA, not programming.
It's much more fun to mock the efforts of others. :)
Fatwa,
Please post the link again.
All you California hands, please lend me your ears. I have a road trip question:
If I take Hwy. 395 out of Reno and head south until it dumps into I-15, that's like what, 400 freakin' miles? Am I reading the map correctly?
Sulla,
God help us if I were to try your job...
The goofiest Y2K theroy would look tame in comparison.
For example, I am at work trying to get my home connection hooked up so I can run VNC on my home server.
QWest sucks
Sinner -
Here 'tis.
How ya doin'?
Reno is 400 freaking miles from anywhere...
Oh, Sinner -
NOT WORK-SAFE!
(Sorry if you get this too late.)
O-Muse:
395 to I-15 is about 400 miles. California is BIG going north-south.
sinner,
vnc works, but it's kinda complicated.
Have you tried Hamachi? one of the easiest-to-use VPN apps I've tried, though corporate firewalls tend to be a PITA to navigate.
They were recently purchased by Logmein, which has a free remote desktop app that I like.
OK, That f-ing ROCKS Fatwa
I'm linking it on the Front Page.
Great Frischmas song, regnmuse (Teh Oregonmuse without the O)
Also Sulla-great song.
I haven't been able to get anything posted over there, but that's ok. She read it & didn't have the guts to post it, so I won.
Had to do some real life today: Unplanned, I walked in on a friend who's dog had just died & drove her to the vet's office for cremation. One of those times when all you can do for someone is just be there, you know?
VNC is not really that hard and runs cross platform, I use it both from Linux and Windoze. I have a number of systems scattered over the network that have no keyboard/mouse/monitor but a NIC and VNC running.
It's also a standard at my day job, which is a strict stickler for standards, let me tell you.
Sinner - Here's the original comment:
If you're in the mood for some top-notch television entertainment this evening, check out this ultra-low-budget radio promo for a couple of shows which might be of interest to VBSers.
(You may have to scroll down a bit on the linked page and/or wait a few seconds for the file to load.)
CAUTION: THIS IS NOT WORK-FRIENDLY!
You have been warned.
For some reason, the conversion to mp3 made the spot sound a little "tubby". Plus I don't own the right type of mic for voiceovers (I'm more a writer/producer when it comes to radio, anyhow) and am getting over a cold. Feh.
A little mid-range roll-off and/or high-end boost might improve audibility; I hope teh funny® comes through anyway.
Music courtesy of the Fatwa Arbuckle Dead Project Archives®.
Also check out VNC one-touch... I use it for my tech support nightmare clients.
Fatwa, updated, thanks.
Is that your voice or did you use that AT&T thingie?
Sinner,
"standards sticklers" aside, sounds like an interesting gig.
The only non-Windows box I've ever had to work on for my job was Steve Jobs' NeXT system (man, that takes me back...)
I've nothing against Linux, but it's not what keeps me in snack cakes and Dexatrim. I sometimes hunt down linux webservers for my various sites, just so I have to keep up a (very) minimal skill set in it. That, and the occasional Cygwin foray is about it.
Thanks, Sinner, I'll check out vnc one-touch.
Part of the job is looking for what people are using in the field to make sure our stuff works with it.
It helps to be curious - and devious - in this job.
Sinner -
My voice (with a cold), Shure SM58 (non-studio-quality) mic, Mackie 1604 board, a little EQ.
That's it. (Except for the phlegm; truth in advertising, and all that.)
Sinner -
The weird-sounding parts in the first half is basically me running-out of air.
Try this the "Rich" voice sounds alot like the "action movie announcer dude"
395 to I-15 is about 400 miles. California is BIG going north-south.
OK, thanks. You know, I used to live in CA (grew up in SF Bay Area in the 60s -- I got to see real live hippies in their native habitat in the Haight-Ashbury in SF) and I keep forgetting how HUUUGE it is...
Sinner -
Some of those text-to-speech voices are middlin' amazing. I had no idea about that site (although AT&T's been involved in speech synthesis pretty much from the beginning decades ago).
Thanks for the link!
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