I watched The Great Gatsby on DVD yesterday. I started out being really annoyed with Baz Luhrmann’s over-the-top excesses – the loud, frenetic party scenes, the overly-glittery mansions, and the extreme “after the bomb” devastation of the “Valley of Ashes”. But I really liked Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting, and the many striking images in the film,…
I was back to the tax center on Friday, after taking a break for Boskone, and got immediately plunged into a whirlwind of interesting tax situations. The first customer wanted to file an amended return for last year because when she’d come in last week to do her 2013 return she learned about the Massachusetts…
Hard to believe I’ve been to 50 Boskones. (Yes, I missed Boskone 3. If I’d have known it was the only one I would miss, I would have made more of an effort to go. But it wasn’t a real Boskone, so I didn’t.) #51was pretty good, or so I hear. I missed a lot…
We had an excellent 4th session of the diabetes workshop this morning. We’d missed last week due to weather, but had a good turnout today, plus three student nurses observing. One participant reported losing several pounds since the start of the workshop (“I wasn’t really trying, but I guess cutting down on sweets helped.”). Ya…
The view from my bedroom this morning: