In communicado

I am sitting here in my office, waiting for the world to arrive. Or at least a piece of it. I am trying to work on some items before the day begins in earnest. I would not want anyone to come to my office and see what it looks like. It is not to the point where I would want those ladies from BBC America to come and dig me out. I don't think you would find unfinished meals and dead vermin in my office. It is just not as straight as it needs to be.

I am going to stop here and try to work on some things before the rest of the day gets started. I need to look at some law books.

Horrors! Look up the law? Say it isn't so (To borrow from the Black Sox Scandal).

There is always something a little bit desperate in a lawyer of my years actually sitting down and trying to determine the lay of the law land. Most laymen would probably think that this is something which should be second nature to an experienced lawyer.

But I will tell you: just as you begin to grasp a handle on some part of the law, even that part which seldom changes, like real estate law, then you find yourself immersed in the interweavings of changing statutes, court opinions and whatnot.

And it is the whatnot which will really get you.