Post Holiday Drag

I have been neglecting my blog; Christmas at Claudia's was fun, Becca and her family came to Chicago and we did the Museum, went to movies, browsed the book stores, ate at the good places and had a swell time. I got seven new books to read but I have only opened three.

I got the wonderful trilogy by Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials; "The Golden Compass","The Subtle Knife", and "The Amber Spyglass", anxious to start them, "Sin in the Second City" about the Everleigh sisters and their Chicago South Side brothel, heard a lot about them when I was growing up, another Arturo Perez Reverte novel, "The Seville Communion", Alan Bennett's "The Clothes They Stood Up In" and "The Lady in The Van", Murder In Baker Street", an anthology of short stories written by various authors - I did manage to finish that one, Clive Cusslers's, "The Chase" -finished it too and "The Book of IQ Tests" - I have done a few; very difficult and challenging. I will have lots to comment on when when the tax season ends.

I volunteered to do Federal Income Taxes under the VITA/TCE program sponsored by AARP. This is tax help and filing mainly for seniors and people with middle or low income, It's free and starts Feb 3rd.
For the last three weeks I have done nothing but study. I took classes and passed a test to become "certified" but the software is new to me so it has been practice, practice, practice.