We started out the year helping out at Three Square, a food bank here in Las Vegas. We packed over 5,000 packs of food to be given to school kids to feed them for a single weekend.  Usually fed breakfast and lunch in school, many of these kids get no food at all from Friday night through Monday morning.  That's just heartbreaking.

Judith's computer has been on the fritz for more than a month, making her close to unlivable.  But there's hope on the horizon and perhaps by the time you get this, she will have regained her computer functionality and her good humor.

Also on a more upbeat note, Dennis spent two days at the National Society for Tax Professionals Update Seminar learning what's coming on the tax front.  Is that actually upbeat?

The Financial Planning Association of Nevada had its first strategic planning session with its dynamic new board, and will be holding its first membership educational program in a few days.

Slowly the new year gears up.