links; accounting frustration

[kate_nepveu]

Links:

• “Closer To Fine” At 30: The Legacy Of Indigo Girls’ Spellbinding Singalong via Clever Manka.

• The University of Illinois Extension's Stain Solutions database is so useful.

Also, I use Quicken Desktop so I can put our upcoming bills in and make sure we have enough money for them (also remind me of recurring bills), but Quicken 2017 has recently stopped syncing and instead of upgrading, I thought I'd try Mint, because honestly the desktop program has always been kind of frustrating and I hate that they've gone to a subscription model. Except Mint . . . doesn't seem to do that? And it definitely doesn't let you reconcile an account, which is just nonsense.

Does anyone have a Windows or online accounting program that they like and that will do these very simple things?

(Edit: I just got Quicken to work again, but I'll take recs anyway fwiw.)

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[totient]

Mint is a great RSS aggregator for your finances. But it is not accounting software. It's not even double-entry bookkeeping underneath! Why ever not I could not tell you.

[kate_nepveu]

that's . . . weird. but I guess it works for enough people?

[clevermanka]

I got to see Indigo Girls at Red Rocks in Colorado in, like...1996? ish? I spent the entire time dreaming/pretending the (lady)friend I went with was my girlfriend. I had such an enormous crush on her. Reading the article and listening to the song brought that all back. <3

[kate_nepveu]

I've been trying to remember if I actually ever saw them in concert! I think I didn't and just listened to the concert album a lot.

[clevermanka]

I'm lucky enough to have seen them twice, but the Red Rocks show was...transcendent. =D

[pameladean]

Oh, that article was great. I am profoundly attached to a number of the Indigo Girls' songs, but I have never tried to find out anything about them.

P.

[kate_nepveu]

I listened to them a ton around college, but sort of faded away after; I should check out their newer stuff and see what's up.

[lokifan]

Me too, exactly.

[rilina]

That Indigo Girls article reminded me vividly of the time they played at my college campus during my freshman year, and being part of the huge crowd singing along with the closer. I actually wasn’t terribly familiar with them then—only started listening to them later—but gosh, that was great.

[kate_nepveu]

wow, I bet it would be!

[readinggeek451]

I've been a fan of the Indigo Girls since I learned that they existed, and not just because I knew Emily as a kid. The Saliers family and mine went to the same church, and Emily is my age, so we were in Sunday school, youth choir, and church youth group together. We did a fair amount of folk singing in youth group; Emily would play the guitar while we all sang. And once she sang us a song that she had written. (I wish I could remember it better; something about an old man drinking tea.)

We were friendly but not really friends; I doubt she would remember me anymore--at least not without prompting.

[kate_nepveu]

aww, how lovely!