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OH HELLO, PART II

So I said that there would be more later, and it's later now and . . . well, there's not much more. I'm moving to DC to work with the IRS -- ta-daaa!

It looks to be a decent job, and I'm very pleased to have it. That will probably be just about all I have to say about my work on this page, except in the most general sense. I don't post here anonymously, and I understand that posting about the events at one's workplace is a dangerous activity. And there's the small matter of a low-level security clearance that I must qualify for and maintain . . . you get the idea.

My lovely wife is coming too, of course -- what she will do to occupy her time in our nation's capital is as yet unknown. The plan is to give her plenty of time to work on her aaaaht -- since she was kind enough to put up with me quitting my job and writing a crappy sci-fi novel for a few months. She may have a regular job or she may not, depending on what comes her way.

I do wonder if the postcard bandit will pick up on this move, as she did on the last one. I do believe I've figured out who it was, not that it matters now. Makes me wonder why it took so long.

End of transmission. posted by Carlton at 6:24 PM

OH HELLO

Yes, I've been away from blogging for really a long time. That's kind of unfortunate, since many events of moment have traspired in my absence. The moments have passed, you might say. And I have refused (so churlishly!) to provide my much-needed analysis.

Yeah, whatever. Here's the story, in brief:

After some time on the soup line, I found a job (via a dear friend) working for a lefty fund-raising operation here in Boston. I was their "in-house legal counsel" no less. While toiling away at that, I found a more permanent job in Washington D.C., to which locale my lovely new wife and I will be relocating next week. We've sold our nice Jamaica Plain condo (snif!) and are moving to Arlington, VA to live the next segment.

What's the job, you ask? Let me tell you -- it is controversial. It is so controversial that I'm guessing that a couple of my readers will cease to call me friend once they find out what I am doing.

I am working for the Internal Revenue Service.

(more later) posted by Carlton at 10:15 PM

WHOA

I don't really consider myself to be a Trekkie, or a Trekker, or any of those things . . . but I'm enough of one that this headline gave me pause:

Khan 'gave centrifuges to N. Korea'

I mean, isn't Khan supposed to be running around at about this time? (Before he puts himself in suspended animation and sleeps until the Dorky-first century, of course.)

If anyone were peddling nuclear secrets, you KNOW it would be him.

Who would it be? Khaaaaan! posted by Carlton at 10:10 PM