Whoohoo!
Found Neptune tonight for the first time ever in any scope, and Uranus for the second time in a non-goto scope!
No gotos or computers, just the coordinates and SkyAtlas 2000.0. And my 8" Dobbie of course.
Uranus was tricky because I could not correlate the star field to what was in the Atlas. There was this star in the finder where there should not have been one and it kept confusing me so I kept getting lost. Turned out of course that star was Uranus.
Nice little blue disk.
Neptune was harder, because it's a lot fainter (one mag?), and it's tiny! It must be only a few times bigger than the resolving limit of the 8", so it takes a bit of looking to tell it apart from the diffraction images of stars.