The Reach of the Blogosphere

Yet another example of the reach of the blogosphere:  I went to my son's first college soccer game yesterday, and seized the opportunity to have lunch with my favorite accountant-tax blogger: Joe Kristan:

Joe beat me to the punch by blogging our lunch here.  It was wonderful to break bread and chat about tax law, blogging, and our families.  One question I forgot to ask:  does this make my trip tax deductible?

It was a real treat to watch my son's game (although it brought back long-suppressed memories of my first college baseball game -- I batted cleanup (for the only time) based on my performance against the fastball-throwing pitching machine during preseason practice, but struck out in my three at-bats (with nary a foul ball) against the curveball-throwing lefthander from Howard before the coach mercifully pinch-hit for me).