Thomas Dolby, I Love You Goodbye.

Thanks for that. Indeed, that makes me less confident in their suitability to teach those subjects, but I worry about a sensational conclusion about their general literacy.

I would want to repeat that study with novels written in the past 25 years before concluding too much. Yes, the participants had access to a dictionary, but I imagine that needing to decipher certain parts, such as foreign cultural references and familiar words with unexpected meanings, interferes with the brain’s usual functions for turning words into images in the mind’s eye. And this even ignores the folks with aphantasia like me.

Yes, although I’m struck by some of the words, particularly this sense of “wonderful”.

And now I’m even more glad that it’s sunny out here right now and I can hear birds.

Maritime Madness, Candied Habanero or Lime Cilantro.

Political discussions online rarely lead to satisfying resolutions. As a result, political discussions bleed into everyday discussion in the desperate hope that something, somewhere, will magically make sense.

Similarly, when businesses have meetings that don’t actually resolve matters, every meeting becomes a desperate chance to discuss things that matter in the hopes they’ll be resolved, so then every meeting that needs to happen will happen during every scheduled meeting, even wrhb ostensibly unrelated. This continues until meeting culture changes and even overall communication culture changes.

It seems natural and reasonable in such an environment for many people (like you) to want to disengage. Why continue doing something that never seems to lead to resolution?

deleted by creator

I am quite familiar with the verbs. Thanks.

My original joke was based on the assumption that “She lay” was intended to be in the present tense (and why wouldn’t it be?) and therefore a humorous use of colloquial English (in place of “she lays”, possibly invoking African American English for humorous effect. We can argue about whether this is culturally sensitive.). The corresponding correction would therefore be “She lie”, rather than the grammatically standard “She lies”.

“snuck” is perfectly fine, as long as that’s what you’ve heard since birth. 🤷

You did it. Count me among the folks who would reply to you.

Yes. It didn’t sound past tense in my head, but that certainly fits.

And no: “she lie” would be a colloquial present tense assuming that “she lay” was a similar colloquial conjugation of the verb “to lay” as commonly used in place of “to lie”.

I applaud your plan. Have fun!

*lie.

And I love the cat.

deleted by creator

Rocket is the only being that deserves decaf, then.

I need to have two cats named Campari and Vermouth so that they could have a kitten named Negroni. It doesn’t quite work, but I’d do it anyway.

Gratitude is a revolutionary act in times like these. Since you’re going to die, anyway, you might as well enjoy the ride as much as you can and teach your child to do the same. If you manage to make the world a better place along the way, then so much the better.

Peace.

What is “erratic” for you? What is “off in a bad way” for you? There might be a clue in there somewhere.

First, thank you for the thoughtful and detailed reply. I find it helpful.

Plain text accounting (and all the variants) sounds great, right until you need to use it to generate invoices, or depreciate assets, or do a monthly Business Activity Statement, or convert a currency, track repayments, etc.

All of those things require that you write software to achieve that, which means that now instead of solving problems and writing software for my clients, I’m burning hours writing software so I can run my business

Oddly enough, I feel the opposite: I’m so glad that I have the freedom to use other tools to do what I need and that I can simply write some custom software to achieve that. I always felt locked in by QuickBooks and now I can do anything from messing around in a spreadsheet to writing what I need with jq. Plain text as an interface means that the sky is the limit for flexibility.

It has also made my company’s financial information more accesible to me. Previously, I’d given it over to bookkeepers and accountants and only seen out of date financial statements when it was time to file taxes. Now I know what’s going on whenever I want.

It has also turned bookkeeping into a programming exercise, which made me more interested, not less. I don’t have clients waiting impatiently for me to produce features for them, so I can enjoy this wro instead of having it feel like a distraction.

I’ve been writing software for over 40 years and until last week I’d never heard of it. That’s not something you want in business software.

I feel that!

Because I’m still running a 25 year old accounting package that doesn’t run on current hardware, isn’t supported, doesn’t run under Linux and has all my data hostage.

Our motivations definitely seem compatible, even if our constraints and preferences don’t.

Thanks again. Good luck.

I’ve been using Plain Text Accounting for the past two years and have mostly enjoyed my experience. I’ve found hledger both well documented and well supported. I don’t know the space very well, so which applications and/or packages have you tried?