Quicken 2007 For Mac To Be Discontinued, Replaced By Quicken 2017
As a long time user of Quicken for Mac I have been stuck using Quicken 2007. Intuit came out with several version of Quicken after 2007 but they all lacked the most important features that I used Quicken for.
Intuit was apparently aware at their own incompetency at producing a quality Mac quicken app becaue they continued to make Quicken 2007 compatable with the latest OS.
Quicken was sold in 2015 which is resulting in a updated version of Quicken.
The Quicken team is committed to delivering a great Mac product to our customers. We are in the midst of doubling the size of our Mac engineering team, and our engineers are hard at work on improving Quicken for Mac 2016 (including the recent release of 12 month budgets) and building a robust Quicken for Mac 2017 that will launch later this year.
In order to focus our Mac engineering efforts on products that are built to run on Apple’s latest computers and operating systems, we will be ending support of Quicken for Mac 2007 with the release of Quicken for Mac 2017, later this year.
One way or another Quicken Mac users will be forced to upgrade whether the 2017 version is feature complete with 2007 or not.
New Mexico Subs For Arizona In Sicario
Sicario has become one of my recent favorite movies. The story mostly takes place in Phoenix, Arizona but it was filmed in New Mexico.
The film starts in Chandler, Arizona where I grew up. Seeing the image of the west side of Albuquerque, with the Sandia mountains in the background, substitute for Chandler was funny. I thought Chandler was a odd choice, as it’s a much bigger town than what they are trying to portray. Maybe farther east like Florence would have been a better choice.
None of this bothered me. I wish I would have been able to work on Sicario in some capacity but I was just starting out in the film business when this was being made.
Goodbye To The Maverick
In 1991 I was in high school and a neighbor brought home a 1972 Ford Maverick Sprint and parked it in front of his house. I fell in love with it and eventually bought it.
I could go on about what it meant to to me but the short story is it sat in my garage for almost the whole 20 years I’ve been in New Mexico. It’s pretty clear that I will never have the money to finish working on it and it’s just clutter at this point.
I sold it. It was hard but it’s better at this point.
Goodbye And Fuck You 2015
While a change in the calendar year has no real meaning to the universe, it’s not hard to track one’s life milestones by the change in the year.
2014 was bad after being laid off from Intel. 2015 continued being shitty with poor job prospects and the death of my sister among many of my problems.
I have become a cliche at the age of 40 with major life changing events and being in the situation where I don’t know what to do with myself. I hope next year brings some improvements but honestly I am not very hopeful.
1980’s Robots
I have some 1980’s Robots for sale. They include:
6 x HealthKit ET-18 Hero -1 (apparently belonged to NASA at some time)
2 x Maxx Steele By Ideal
2 x HeathKit Hero Jr
1 x Omnibot 2000
1 x Androbot Inc Topo
contact admin at greginthedesert.net for more information.
R.I.P Kristina Joy Smith
My sister Kristina Joy Smith died in Miami, Florida on Jan 6th 2015. She was 37 years old.
She was living in Marathon, Florida (located in the Florida Keys) where her boyfriend took her to the Fisherman’s hospital when she was complaining of leg pain. They airlifted her to Kendal Regional hospital on Dec 12th 2014 where it was determined she had Septic Shock.
My mom and I had made two trips to Miami during this time. It was pretty clear when we saw her that she was not going to survive. They had her on medications for the infection and her blood pressure, but she was not responding well to either one. Her hands and feet started to turn black due to the lack of circulation and her organs were failing.
It’s obviously been a difficult time for us and we are asking for help covering expenses. If your interested you can visit a donation page “Help pay for Kristina Smith’s funeral expenses“.
How Is AMREP Corporation Doing?
seekingalpha.com has a article about AMREP titled “Amrep’s Rio Rancho Dream May Turn Out To Be A Desert Mirage“. Everyone who lives in Rio Rancho should know about AMREP (especially if they live in one of their shitty houses). Overall the article indicates that the company’s media business is on the decline and it’s not well understood how much it’s real estate is worth.
It is currently a company that engages mainly in the business of subscription fulfillment services, newsstand distribution services and product packaging and fulfillment services as well as a bit of staffing businesses. We will call these businesses collectively as Media services and they make up pretty much all of the company’s business activities on a regular basis. The second aspect of the stock’s value is its large ownership of land in the city of Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
In the 1960s, AXR purchased the massive plot of land in Rio Rancho and it was mass marketed to people all over the world as a retirement home or an investment property. The 1960s ads marketed them as wonderful investments at a mere $10/month attracted investors worldwide and particularly from New York. AXR then sold thousands of plots to different investors without considering the future development possibilities of Rio Rancho. Thus, Rio Rancho is now left with the legacy of this antiquated platting method where any meaningful area for development has already been developed and most of the land left has been divided in ownership due to AXR’s own past plot sales.
Be sure to check out their website, which is as shitty as their houses.
Thoughts About GT Advanced Technologies
In November of 2013 azcentral.com reported “Apple to buy vacant Mesa building, bring 2,000 jobs to Valley“
The deal, which was announced by GT in a regulatory filing Monday afternoon, is seen as a coup for Arizona, drawing excitement and praise from Gov. Jan Brewer, Mesa Mayor Scott Smith and a variety of economic-development officials.
Not even a year later the whole thing has fallen apart with GT Advanced Technologies filing for bankruptcy and laying off 727 people from the plant. I can’t help think about those people and how excited they must have been when the plant first opened and how shitty they feel today. I wonder if Tim Cook and the other managers at Apple are also thinking about these people loosing their jobs.
GT called it’s contract with Apple “oppressive and burdensome”. It makes me think that Apple is used to making whatever demands they want of Chinese companies and the Chinese companies get as much slave labor as needed to get done what ever Apple requests. GT was unable to respond like a Chinese company.. This could be bad for American manufacturing. Apple should be making their parts in America, but will they even try to work with another American company? Will another American company want to work with Apple? Will anyone learn anything from this?
I interviewed to work at GT in February of this year. I was not offered a job because I was unable pick up and move to Arizona immediately. I suspect I would have been offered a job as I think I was well qualified. I guess I could say that I was lucky I didn’t get laid off twice in one year. I don’t feel lucky, I just feel bad about the whole situation and everyone that is loosing their job.
More Non News On The Village At Rio Rancho
I’m still waiting for The Village at Rio Rancho to open. According to the Albuquerque Journal “Unser corridor attracting more business, development“, the area is growing with business. But its not clear what is going on with The Village.
The Village at Rio Rancho, proposed for 65 acres across the street from Rust, remains preliminary, according to Geisel.
“We are excited that the developer is starting to make plans for the next steps in the project,” he added.
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