That Time of the Year

Every year about this time I suddenly go silent for a little while. That's because I'm up to my eyeballs in tax returns and applications for college financial aid, the first having to come before the second, but the second possibly being the more miserable of the two. (Well, actually, neither of them is as miserable as the realization that I have, once again, failed in my New Year's resolution to keep up with the record-keeping during the year. So I spend a lot of time paging through receipts as a sort of opening volley, before any of the rest happens.)

I'm in the middle of it right now. But I'm about to spend a few days in Washington state, in the Puget Sound area, on family business, so I won't get to finish it until next week.

Lots of interesting stuff is going on: Amazon giving way on the talking Kindle 2, stuff in science, progress on my ebooks, the economy continuing to implode. I'm afraid it'll all have to wait a while. At least for me to comment on it. Have a great weekend, everyone!