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I mentioned this bit to my husband, and he told me that while this is true, they have also completely removed all ability to use anything that came with even-earlier operating systems. So if you have some programs from your days with Windows NT, and that work just fine on your current XP Pro machine, those same programs will NOT work with Windows 7. For what it's worth....

Congratulations, Booger!! Hope it all goes VERY smoothly. The lesser commute and being your own boss are each great things; putting them together will be super. Be warned, however -- once you've been your own boss for a while, it becomes next to impossible to ever contemplate going back to working for someone else. Catherine

I've been here and working all day. However, I've taken to only checking in once or twice, since so many folks seem to be away. Lion, hope all the pre-wedding prep goes well! Catherine

"Get your first shot off FAST; that upsets them long enough to make your next shot perfect." From the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" section of Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love"

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I hope you have a marvelously with many many more to come! And thank you for starting our birthday greetings to our online friends, every day.

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Thank you, HV Ken!

Here's a tidbit for our amusement. I stumbled across this using the StumbleUpon web tool. 10 words for strange little things; how many did YOU know? 10 Words I knew 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9.

From a New Yorker cartoon: two men in high-end business suits. One says, "These new regulations will totally change the way we get around them." 'Nuff said.

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There is indeed a QuickBooks for Mac -- however, be warned that Intuit has always treated this product about the same way you might treat a distant cousin who tells rude, non-funny jokes in a loud voice and doesn't bathe regularly -- you'll invite him for Thanksgiving because you have to, but you're going to sit as far away from him as you can manage. Many of the standard features in QB for Windows either do not exist or are severely limited in QB for Mac. It will look and feel like QB/Windows of several years ago, at best. However, it does exist, it IS better for a business than Quicken, and it does work just fine within its' limitations. And you can convert from Quicken files to QB files. Pay attention to the changes that have to be made to the Quicken file, and be prepared to try a couple of times before you're satisfied with the conversion (Quicken to QB tends to give some oddball detritus, and sometimes it takes an iteration or two to get a file you're content with). Of course, make a good backup/copy of the Quicken file OFF the conversion computer (CD or flash drive or other, dis-connectable hard drive), so that if something goes awry, you have an uncontaminated data file available for the next attempt.

Hi Booger! Hope you and the missus are enjoying the summer. _Excellent_ idea on scanning the 8879's, and I hope you don't mind if I steal it. That would get rid of a couple of _big_ folders in my files. (Thanks also to Margaret for posting the proof that this will be acceptable.) Catherine

But the first-year "loss leader" approach is certainly used in many industries. Do you think we can get Ally Bank to write tax software?

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