Looking Good

A Big Day.
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Not just because it is Thursday, POTW Day, when lives are inexhorably changed.
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Mike is coming home tonight from DC. for St. Patrick's Day ... his first trip home since signing on with BearingPoint.
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I'm having dinner at Legal with my Darwin friends, who want to give DiMatteo and me a proper departure from that high end IT staffing company.
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Plus, I just bought a Moto Q from Sprint, which should boost my productivity even higher. I didn't think that could be possible.
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Not to mention working today doing the stuff I love to do, with people I love to work with at Sundance, Nanepashemet and Rockett.
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How's your day look?

White Flag

I had to surrender.
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Filed extensions for both Sundance and Nanepashemet with the IRS.
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The corporate filing deadline is March 15, and I wanted to make it, but only an all-nighter would have pulled it off, and I'm saving those efforts for a special occasion. I do intend to stay on this task until the returns are filed, and my country knows exactly how much money we made last year.

Naive

Think that killing people to destroy the evidence will save you?
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You forgot about the Law of Karma.
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Don't be a Pussy and scream on the way down. Take it like a man.

Criminal Behavior

Some Crimes are not against the law.
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Leaving millions on the table, and ruining careers based upon business incompetence and chronic, myopic, CYA is a crime that should be against the law.
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And I'd love to be the Prison Guard.

Outlook

Nature played a cruel trick on us today... 60 degrees, like it's going to be like this from now on. It won't happen. Less than a week ago, I was freezing my ass off going to the Boston Govt. Center garage in single digit temperatures with a driving wind.
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Today, the Sundance project hit the home stretch. Mike Rockett provided the catalyst, and Eyk Van Otterloo covered the unknowns. Sparky and Eric Rumpf filled in some other gaps. Sundance will be fine.
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Nanepashemet Project Management also had a banner day. Huge potentials from two diverse clients. Waiting on one more, and it will be an unprecedented outlook. Peeps, I will tell you if it starts to suck, but it doesn't suck... the view from here and now is awesome.
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Even finishing the Tender seems possible.

North End

Dinner with DiMatteo and a player to be named later at Trattoria di Monica on Prince Street in Boston's North End.
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DiMatteo is the zen master of North End Italian restaurants. Never a bad meal.
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Always start at Cafe della Sport on Hanover Street.... always end at Joe's American Grille on Atlantic Street.

More Internal Revenue Services

So now the IRS sent me a bill saying that I owe $132 from my 2004 taxes. No explanation or anything. I'm paying them immediately, but I don't think they'll appreciate it. Just one adventure after another.

Suck Brothers

Joanne and I took a nice walk along Devereaux Beach in the 40 degree sunny weather. We saw some sea birds in the water that looked a lot like loons and we also saw Danny Marcus.
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Danny was one of the original "Suck Brothers" of Marblehead Youth Hockey. A great guy.
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He and Ralph Sevinor used to talk about who sucked on the ice, which could get on your nerves. Then we started to call them the "Suck Brothers", and everytime they said someone sucked, we would all crack up.
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Funny how you can change your perspective from something that is irritating to something that is laughable.
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BTW, Gill, you must be spelling the address wrong. Hundreds of other peeps got it right.

Saturday Night

Watching Borat on DVD with Joanne and Kathy Peabody. It is so funny, that it hurts.
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I've also rekindled my interest in Whiskey Sours. So far, I've told you about the Dark and Stormies, and Seagrams and Cider, and I don't think that another favorite cocktail will confuse anyone.
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So here is my famous recipe for Whiskey Sours.
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Fill a mid sized glass half way with ice, cover the ice with Jack Daniels, add some concentrated lemon juice, put in half a packet of Splenda, fill to the brim with Ginger Ale (I prefer diet for health reasons). Adding fruit is optional. Stir briskly. Drink. Repeat.

Dump Run

Have to make a drive this morning to move clutter from the house and get it to the dump. I'll concentrate on bagging junk until 1:30 PM, then make a dump run.
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After that, it's all taxes and accounting for this fun weekend.
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Do we know how to party or what!!!!

Weekend Update

What's up for the weekend?
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I really wanted to go x-c skiing up in No. Conway, but the more mature choice is to tackle the corporate taxes for Sundance Pre-School and Nanepashemet Project Management.
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The corporate taxes are due March 15.
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If you're expecting me to rant about taxes in America, then I'm sorry. I just can't go there every time. But then again, the oppressive tax system is stealing a weekend of my life.

Transition

It seems like an extraordinary amount of change is in the air, like the universe is switching channels. Some of those closest to me are undergoing various important transitions.
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Change is always tough, because uncertainty of the outcome causes anxiety. Generally, we fear change.
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But change is the opportunity for new experience, and growth. And that's what we came on Earth to do.... to experience things.
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So embrace change. Don't be so judgemental.
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Trust that God knows more than you do. And make the best of it.