After 16 tax seasons with redozdachs my method of coping has devolved into sharing his pain by being equally focused on non-fun things.  Since arriving home from the pre-tax-season cruise, I haven't managed to edit and publish the photographs from the trip.  But, I have:Completed a website for a Unitarian Universalist minister looking for an interim assignment. The picture for this post is of the minister, Rev. John Marsh, and comes from that site.Completed a site for a Scottsdale Certified Public accounting firm.Updated another interim minister's site.Reconstructed a site for a non-profit that promotes economic development in Transylvania.Assumed web master responsibilities [...]

Yesterday, during hearings on the State Departmentâ™s 2008 budget, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) slammed the U.S. militaryâ™s ban on gay servicemembers, saying the Pentagon âœseems more afraid of gay people than they are [of] terrorists,â and that if the terrorists were smart, âœtheyâ™d get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.âread more | digg story

 Some of the 80 men who slept in at the church Monday night couldn't stay for the 6 am breakfast because they had to get to their early-starting jobs.And, it was uncomfortable to be thanked so profusely for serving toast, cold cereal, and oatmeal for breakfast.  (Maybe if we had eggs, pancakes, or French toast I would have felt better?) I don't understand why it's acceptable to perennially need the "Mayor's Winter Emergency Shelter".  Why people who are working to the best of their ability cannot have a place of their own. Why a collusion of oligarchs legitimizes the payment one [...]

"It's not really Shakespeare, it's more like Desparate Housewives" -- Tom Aminano.

We’re back! Disembarked at 10:30 this morning, and still unpacking and doing laundry. Wonderful trip. Here’s a quick log started on my notebook on board.  Over the next few days I’ll download pictures, make links, and add some impressions. […]