Just had a quiet day at home with Sienna yesterday. Picked her up Friday evening as usual. Yesterday we made some Toilet Roll People. I drew some people on some toilet rolls then strung the lot together on some string. Sienna loves it.
I spent a lot of yesterday trying to find some good freeware Finance software.. mostly budgetting stuff but it looks as if even though there’s plenty around they are pretty much useless. You can import your QIF data and display it, but that’s about it. A couple of useless pie graphs and stuff don’t really help. Two of them let me set categories on each transaction, but only manually so doing that for 200+ entries is too much. Surely they could easily add an option on importing to specify categories based on the Description field. eg. If the credit card transaction says “COLES BRISBANE 4000″ you put it in the “Groceries” category automatically. Even partial matches like “COLES*”. I’m sure the expensive ones probably would do that.. Quicken? But not the freebie ones. Might have to shell out after trialling some Commercial applications.
The ones I tried were:
abasetup.exe - Abassisi
AceMoneyLiteSetup.exe - AceMoney
grisbi-0.5.7-win32-gcc-050605-gtk2-not-provided.exe - Grisbi (crashes if you look at it!)
jgnash-1.10.6.exe - JGnash .. java one
mlfe.exe - Metalogic Finance Explorer
mmgrex_setup_0_6_2_0u.exe - Money Manager Ex
PLCash.exe - PLCash .. java one too
If you are interested in freebie finance software, go check it out, but don’t expect much.
I got the washing done yesterday and the day before even washed the kitchen and dining room floor! Wonders never cease!
Today we have to go shopping and then I might take Sienna out to a park. We both need to get out of the house for a while and she needs some fun. Will have to get some more photos taken.
The photo album on here died. I don’t know how it happened. I think Fantastico broke it. I ran an upgrade and it changed the user and database to gllr1 which was already occupied by the VZ-ALiVE gallery and the other database vanished. Coulda been something else. I dunno. At any rate, all the database was gone so there was no point in keeping the photos around. I will reinstall a photo gallery some time in the future when I cbf.
I decided to cut down on my daily coffee. I was getting a large mocha which was $4 but now they decided too many people were ordering them and eating up all the chocolate so they raised it to $4.20. Well, that was already $20pw or $80pm so I don’t want to spend more money on coffee. Normally I’d not pay $4 for coffee.. even a large one, but the people at Cube were very friendly and nice and knew my drink. While going to another coffee shop (before it closed down) they asked me every day what my drink was even though I’d been going there for months. Anyway, I need to save the money now as last weekend my car ran completely dry of oil while I was out at Texas Hold’em Poker night. I put 2 litres of oil in it when I got home, but perhaps there is a leak. Besides, I can’t remember when I last had the car serviced so I have Lube Mobile coming this week on Thursday morning at 8am to give the car a service. Should be $174.80. I have Thursday to Tuesday off since mum and dad are coming to visit, so hopefully the car will be fixed before they arrive. We can go places in their car, but I’d have to hang around the house until my car was repaired anyway. I’ll pick up Sienna from her mum’s on Wednesday night. It means I have to miss Poker on Thursday and Sunday but it’s better to see my parents since I haven’t seen them for over 2 years. I’m sure Sienna will love seeing Nonna and Poppy since she would have been only about 1yo when she last saw them. She occasionally talks to them on the phone, but it’s not the same thing. I also have some relatives from the Newcastle area coming to visit some time soon. Perhaps they will turn up when mum and dad visit. It’d be good to have lots of the family here. I haven’t seen most of my family in years. Only one emails me and one I talk to on MSN sometimes. Other than that, I don’t hear a ‘boo’ from anyone at all.
You may have noticed some weird things happening with my blog the last couple of days. I updated it to the latest version and wanted to rearrange my Goooooogle ads. It took a while to set it up correctly. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t have any way to test a theme while you edit it. The only way I could do it is to create another WordPress blog somewhere to test with then upload the changes to my usual blog once I’m done.
