St Paddie's Day

I didn't do anything for St. Paddie's Day today--nothing. I'm suprised at myself. Usually I do something, but this year nothing. I must be slipping.

This morning I had a chat with an MPM member who wanted some advice on working with NPOs. I'm afraid I wasn't very encouraging. She has been given a list of NPO's none of which is in her state. Secondly, every NPO on the list was an organization for men only, women are not allowed. I explained to her that working with NPOs long distance is difficult and in the past has not proven to be very successful. I also explained that the best results can be gotten when people have a passion to work with the NPO even if they do not have an interest in MPM. This woman did not have a passion to drive to another state, or states, to attend meetings for "men only".

I try to be diplomatic with my words but in this case I don't have a diplomatic way of saying how I fell about this so I will just say, in my opinion, the situation could, and should, be handled in such a way as to make the best use of the woman's time.

bzm: I'm happy to say my personal taxes are done and turned in to the accountant. Yes, it is a good feeling.

Tom