You may or may not know that Karen Funk Blocher of Outpost Mâvarin, a/k/a “she who giveth the Weekend Assignments,” is another blogging accountant. (Curiously, none of the blogging accountants I know actually blogs about accounting…) Our profession has inspired this assignment’s title, “Fourth Quarter Projections.” Weekend Assignment #236: We’re now in the fourth quarter of the year, the time when (if they’re not on a different fiscal year) companies have their last chance to […]
Month: October 2008
Saturday Review 10-4 (good buddy)
(If you got that title reference, you are officially old enough to remember the 1970’s heyday of C.B. radio.) Bulletin Board *****Have you met my new widget over there in the sidebar? I’m participating in the 2008 DonorsChoose.Org Blogger Challenge with the Los Angeles Moms Blog! Your donation – as much or as little as you want – goes directly to support the specific classroom teacher project(s) you choose from this list. (By the way, […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday! 10/3/08
Tuesday Thingers: Banned Books Week – The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 (hosted by The Boston Bibliophile) For this week’s Tuesday Thingers, I’ve copied the list of the most-challenged books of the 1990s straight from the ALA website. I’ve highlighted the ones I’ve read. Bold what you’ve read, and italicize what you have in your LT library. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite I Know Why the Caged […]
Weekly Geeks #19 – The year’s best (so far), plus a Read-a-Thon alert
Dewey‘s trying to get a headstart on the year-end book wrap-up with Weekly Geeks #19: I want to have Weekly Geeks come up with one big Best of 2008 list. Here’s how I see it working. First, this week, your WG theme is to list your top books published in 2008. I’m not asking for any specific number of favorite books, because some people don’t read many brand new books. If you’ve only read two […]
What’s that sound on my radio?
If you’ve seen any of my iPod Random Ten posts, you know that my musical preferences are a bit hard to classify, and I like it that way – which is one reason I tend to find radio so frustrating. I’m old enough to remember when radio stations weren’t locked into as specific formats as they are now. Granted, the “Top 40” stations frequently did play the same songs every few hours, but there were […]
