In Which I Scatter Blogging Sleep Crystals
I’m an accountant, really an accounting software consultant, but I don’t “practice tax” in the sense of holding myself out as a tax return preparer or, God forbid, consultant on tax strategy. But I’m sort of collateral damage in the tax wars to the extent that my software clients need to file, and I inevitably end up helping them assemble the information their CPAs require, and that’s what’s taken up a lot of my time the last couple of weeks - it’s been sorta busy.
We had sort of a truncated weekend, as I flew off for Milwaukee Sunday afternoon. We just hung out together and didn’t do anything really special. Saturday night, we joined our son for pizza and brews at a cozy neighborhood pub where he’s found some weekend employment, then returned home to veg in front of my laptop watching the last three episodes of Lost that I downloaded from iTunes.
I even got to spend part of Sunday at home, since my flight didn’t leave until 3:30. That’s unusual, as it seems I’m always hooking up with some 6:30 am flight and getting up in the middle of the night to get to the airport. Of course, the afternoon flight headed east meant I landed in Milwaukee at 11:30 and didn’t get to sleep until around 2am. Monday I was surprisingly alert, but at one point in the afternoon I set a query running, put my head down for a bit, and was dead to the world for an indeterminate period of time.
I got out for a decent run last night (hooray for daylight savings time), puzzled my way through a weight workout on the universal gym here at the hotel, and should have been tired enough to slurp up 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Instead, I was wide awake at 5. I read the Seattle papers online, then forced myself to doze fitfully for another hour or so. Payback will surely come later, as we have a “strategic planning” session today with a lot of powerpoint calisthenics and collaborative exercises, things that work on me like Demorol.
Sorry for the mundane crap post, but not much excitement in this corner lately.
