The silence from this blog lately has been deafening.

Time to pick the low-hanging fruit and churn out something, anything, to let my readers know I’m not dead yet.

First of all, my buddy Krupo’s been cranking out quality, entertaining posts every other day it seems. In this latest post on unions, he lays the smack down on an anonymous commenter on Francine’s top-notch blog, by drawing the link between the usefulness of unions and the requirement to do your homework if you’re outsourcing any part of your business processes or support services.

I often feel like the most left-wing accountant around, but when Krupo makes passionate pleas for decency like in the above post, my heart warms and my faith in the members of our profession moves up a peg. As long as there are near-CAs like he and I there is hope that the “public interest” part of public accounting will actually mean something.

Second, I’ve been a little busy with work but not so busy that I couldn’t blog. I just couldn’t muster the motivation to do it. And it wasn’t even like there isn’t interesting things to write about, first and foremost the expanding credit crunch caused at least in part by my profession (in the US at least) and recently exemplified by the incredible destruction of shareholder value at Bear Stearns. There was also the continuing saga of the KPMG overtime class-action lawsuit filed here in my province, where the latest development sees the accounting firm trying to make good on their goof.

That was something I’d commented on earlier, and came up against some commenters who didn’t see things my way. Oh well, it happens.

Been working at a non-profit organization client of mine this past week and will continue the next week. Was doing some planning for this coming week’s audit as well as another audit that goes in May. The rest of my busy season won’t be too busy it seems, as 3 of the 4 weeks in April I’m scheduled to work on interim for audits that go in June and July. Hard to work late nights on interim!

Thanks for hanging around during this transitional period for me! You make it worth taking the time to write.