I’ll show you the life of a mind.
Please do not expect much from me over the final two weeks of tax season. Feel free to read some of my previous posts. Or go outside and play. Or read a book. Enjoy yourselves. I shall emerge from my little cell and join you very, very soon.
A tax accountant’s workspace. I looked up at one point this morning and thought “damn.” I had to share.
Just a friendly reminder. I’m still here. Tax season and (to the extent my comatose wife will allow, anyway) vacation planning may be monopolizing my prime blog-writing time right now, but I am trying to at least update the fotoblog fairly regularly. And I promise, at the first break in the tax action (taction?), [...]
As I have been spending more time in the office over the past week, I have had occasion to contemplate my own productivity. I am a productivity/organizational nut. I love figuring out ways to perform my daily tasks more efficiently. Before the arrival of the crackberry I would carry a folded index card in my [...]
A) Fist things first. Benjamin Barber at The Nation has written a macro-economic masterpiece of an article which puts forward such delectable nuggets as:
If we are to survive the collapse of the unsustainable consumer capitalism that has possessed our body politic over the past three decades, idealism must become the new realism.
Where, sir, have you [...]
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, audit season has begun. Today I was out in the middle of nowhere – which is located, surprisingly, about 45 minutes by car from downtown Birmingham. The school was seriously outdated. The library, where we set up, was the size of a regular classroom, and the shelves were around [...]
This will be a fairly transparent attempt to make up for not posting anything yesterday. I tried. The MSG in my thrice-warmed-over Chinese take-out finally caught up with me last night, and I ended up lounging, eyes bleary and half-closed, heart beating erratically, sleeping wife and dog and cat beside me, listlessly browsing through my [...]
