First Sale, the Farm Bill, and Bad Parenting
This is for Paul, who by posting a comment here , prompted me out of my blog stupor. I was planning a satirical rant about how I have this awful day job that gets in they way of my blogging. I was going to explain my goal to emulate now-professional bloggers like Heather Armstrong (AKA Dooce ) or parlay my blogging success into a book deal like Jessica Hagy (of Indexed ) and, more important, a shot on the Today Show . But, I can't. I'm beat. I've had a fair amount of substantive work going on. Those of you who follow the court decisions may know that I am headed up to the CAFC. Thus, I won't comment on that. I've also just gotten out a complicated perfection of a prior disclosure and have a number of investigations going on. I am not complaining. Really. I am happy and don't have a horrible day job. I like my job. As a result, it sometimes get in the way of blogging. In particular, for those of you who have been reading for a long time, it gets in the way of t