Sounds of silence

Whoa, sorry about the lapse.  Things have been awfully busy.  Work demands had me living in soCal for most of November and a big chunk of December and led to my resigning effective mid-January.  I've since begun consulting again, and that's going well.  Debt pay-off is also going very well - overall debt is down to $93k (from a max of $105k), and I've paid off 3 credit cards (two that were incredibly high interest, the third had a low balance).  The average interest rate on my debt is approximately 18%, and the balance is dropping steadily every month.

Being self-employed means having to find my own health insurance, which wasn't too onerous.  I do still need to talk to a CPA to make sure I've set everything up correctly, but I've found a few on-line resources that have been helpful.  Since I don't have inventory or employees, the business and accounting structure is straightforward.  I have to work on rounding up the necessary self-discipline to actually work at paying work instead of playing Scrabulous all day long, but I'm fairly motivated by the stacks of bills.

I'm also participating a group cooking blog:  Is That...Pie?  We just started last month; come take a look.

One last note before I disappear for another 4 months - one of our cats now has diabetes.  Not fun, but hopefully manageable with a change to high protein food.