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[glatt]

Is Grifftopia built with SIPs? I can't remember. I know it's timber framed, so SIPs are fairly likely.

I was reading a thread on a construction site by a guy who was building with SIPs for the first time. He found them to be a fair amount of trouble. The supplier stacked them on site in the wrong order, and dropped them off earlier than expected, so they got rained on a lot and the wood skin swelled at the edges so they wouldn't fit together without using a handheld power planer to knock down the random high spots of swollen wood, and the crane used thin straps which crushed the edges in spots. Really frustrating for him.

This guy had been called in to take the job at the last minute and so wasn't able to plan ahead on using SIPs. He said that it was a real learning experience, and the next SIPs job would go better next time, but he thought they weren't worth the trouble.

Up until then, I'd only heard good things about SIPs.

[Lamplighter]

Of course Dwellars can drift this thread anywhere you wish, that's OK.
But...

This posting is not The Good or even The Ugly... that leaves The Bad

Is any Dwellar actually using Quicken or Mint
that can help me with changes described in the OP ?

I have been a super-fan of Quicken since it's earliest days, and now am looking
at a software product that seems to be written for ?
... the lowest percentile of middle school kids with smart phones.

Both Quicken and Mint seem to be parental monitoring services, rather than "tools".
Mint advertises that "No one can move your money around, not even you"

Specifically, I need to know about the current versions of Quicken.
How does one enter (business) expenses paid in cash ?

Cash !!! ... WTF is that ?

[Lamplighter]

I've just RTFM for the new Quicken (108 pages).

And yes, some of my ????'s have been answered, so maybe it's a lot of
cosmetic changes coupled with the loss of "advanced functions"
...but still functional for most of my needs.

Visually, the new format is like one Excel spreadsheet for each account.
But I don't know yet if I can display more than one at a time.
The old Quicken allowed as many accounts as your monitor's geography could handle.

Still, I can't seem to get over the idea of giving access to all of my bank, credit card,
loans, retirement accounts, etc to some "cloud" organization on the web.

Have any hackers managed to get into "cloud data" ... yet ?

So, I'm now off to creating from stratch a whole new Quicken database for 2014,
and sadly waving good-bye to my software-friend of about 15 years.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Still, I can't seem to get over the idea of giving access to all of my bank, credit card,
loans, retirement accounts, etc to some "cloud" organization on the web.

Have any hackers managed to get into "cloud data" ... yet ?

The NSA has access to all that stuff. Don't know if private hackers do. Yet.

If your credit card info is compromised, that's a serious problem for the credit card company.

If your bank account info is compromised, that's a serious problem for YOU.

I don't trust online financial stuff. I've had too many viruses on my own machines and read too many stories about hackers to think real money is safe online. Credit cards, I don't worry about. That's not my money. But bank accounts are real.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by glatt

Is Grifftopia built with SIPs? I can't remember. I know it's timber framed, so SIPs are fairly likely.

No, I did infill so it could be done cheap over time. SIPs seem ideal if you're using professionals.

*de-drift engaged*