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Some projects – like finding the right merger partner – take a long time to bear fruit

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After three years of effort, we finally were able to acquire another local practice.  A hopefully continuing friend of mine, Mari DeVries, has one of the most successful audit firms in Southern Arizona.  Her practice and ours were merged on May 1st and our offices will officially join at some point later this year. Mari will take over the audit lead and I will work on other development projects.  My most immediate goal, besides finishing a large backlog of work, is recruiting staff. We have six slots to fill and I have offers accepted for only three. I expect to close the next two shortly.  If I can locate one more tax staff, life will be good. In many ways, it already is.

Modern day work-at-home set up

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DSCN0733 (2)Getting to work at home – On the right is my work laptop with second screen. I would like to use the home PC (larger screen on left), but couldn’t get it to connect to the server remotely. My ultrabook can connect. So I set that up and was ready to go.  Helps to have two machines so that I can pull up multiple instances of engagement without having to switch between binders and have three screens.

Wonders of spring

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My children gathered acorns from the trees in our front yard last fall.  They stored them in an empty pot by the front door. They placed mom’s decorative garden rock in the center.  No topsoil and only the windblown rain. Still, a grove sprouted – nature and wonder. 

Acorns sprouting

 

 

To scrape or not to scrape

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I find it difficult to come up with ideas to blog about and even more difficult to produce a post when I do. I’ve noticed that many blog/web sites ‘scrape’ content from other sites and re-post. Continue reading →