Of 2011.

I've been neglecting the credit card portions of my financial records (in the sense of tracking the transactions, I've been paying the bills faithfully) for ages. I think it's in the "Due Over a Year Ago" section of my to do list. I was hoping I could just download stuff into iBank because we are all living in the future and these things happen practically by magic, right? Not that I have even tried to do that.

OTOH, since iBank knows I've been making payments to my cards but doesn't know about the charges, it thinks I have way more net worth than I actually do, which is kind of nice in a self-delusional way.

I was hoping I could just download stuff into iBank because we are all living in the future and these things happen practically by magic, right?

That's how I do my checking/savings accounts, but since I need to enter the categories by hand anyway and I have the paper statements in front of me, this is almost as fast.

I'm three months more caught up than my last post! Unfortunately, I'm also missing a statement which is going to make me look way more paid off than I actually am.

Oh crap, I just realized this PTA picnic in an hour is a pot-luck. Quick, what can I make with a can of tomatoes, 3 zucchini, and half a head of escarole? Maybe I'll buy some cookies on the way there.

I don't know iBank, but what is better about it than Mint? Not that I don't have my Mint problems, but I don't have to enter in transactions myself.

I actually really dislike iBank - at the time I started using it, Quicken hadn't updated their Mac version in years and Mint was still very bare-bones, so it seemed like the best out of some very disappointing options. I'm using it now out of inertia. (And nothing has ever been as good as the old MS Money. Sigh.)

And Quicken does not run on macs with Lion.

The house sold! That was fast (though with auctions, it would be.) I think it is one of the first couples I met, boyfriend was asking about contractor work in the area, so this could be very good (though I think he'll be plenty busy over there.)

Waiting for Taylor to arrive. I'm HUNGRY. All I've eaten today was a really really good cheddar and ham biscuit (baked into the dough) from the bbq place. Was one of those catshead kind, HUGE.

I have a friend who is a dear, dear friend's husband. He is a harmless guy, but his social skills are horrible and he can be extremely irritating and off-putting.

I have called him out on several occasions for jack-assery, and once punched him in the middle of a busy street when he was drunk as hell after a wedding and being a total dickface while I was trying to wrestle his drunk ass into my car so I could drive him home -- he thought he could drive and kept trying to run into traffic; I manhandled him for a while, but then about the 4th time he tried to run into the street, I just clipped him.

We are still friends, but I know, and my circle of friends knows of his jackassey behavior, and he's been ostracized from certain events because of it.

I think, meara, you don't have to cut a friend for a particular event of jack-holery. You called him on it; he's admitted it; you've approached the victim of his assholishness and spoken to her.

Most people deserve second chances. You remaining friends with him doesn't mean you condone this event. If he continues to do shit like this, then I would say it's time to re-evaluate if you want to have him as a good friend.

ION, today I slept in after baby-sitting for a girlfriend until 1 am, have been working on projects and other work stuff, which I'll continue to do, and will probably stretch my bones out of this chair for a while in a bit.

Need to do some laundry, bake some cookies, and head into the garage for a hour of garage-sale culling and clean up.

Work some more after that, then maybe watch a movie, eat cookies and drink Prosecco with Dan.

Yeah, one of my best friend's husband, well, I can't stand him. Part of it is his particular personality type just naturally grates on me. Part of it is I think he's made some really selfish life choices that negatively affect my friend. But she loves him, made those compromises willingly, and he clearly adores her.

So I tolerate him.