What am I procrastinating now?
I only seem to be interested in updating my LJ when I'm procrastinating something. Today, it must be finishing [translation from Robspeak: "starting"] my corporate tax return. It's due tomorrow at midnight ... plenty of time, right?


A new learning experience today ... obsessive recycling can be hazardous to your health. I seem to have severed the tip of my finger by trying to separate the metal by pulling the plastic cap off a metal cannister of Szeged Paprika that I had emptied. The little bugger was all sharp inside. I used a bit of Crazy Glue mixed with Bacitracin in hopes of keeping my finger tip. [Joking!]

No news on the search for a job as an archivist ... though I have had a good number of billable/paid hours tutoring someone for the CISSP exam. I'm teaching myself Spanish with the hope of being functional in Latin American reading and speaking by this coming winter. I spend much of my radio time these days listening to Spanish Language radio, writing down the words and phrases that I don't understand to look up later.

I just finished reading Robert Oxnam's A Fractured Mind - a very interesting first-hand account of life with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder). I also read Stamp Investing by Stephen R. Datz. Although this is likely to only be of interest to philatelists, there is an excellent chapter that covers Economics 101 and a trivial history of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century. I learned a few things about times that I lived through (Nixon/Ford/Carter/Bush 41) but never really understood what happened. It also is a really good book to read if you have a collection and you expect it to behave like other investments, or as a hedge against inflationary or market risk.

OK ... I think it's time to work on taxes for a bit.