AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 15, 2006 — I discussed having a party for my dad in the fall. When you plan that far ahead it's hard to know what will happen.

"If I don't make it, you can just have a memorial service." That's my dad's attitude.

He will be 90 in the fall. I read about a quiz today they have that calculates the odds that a person will die in the next four years. Both my dad and my father-in-law (who is 95) would get a score on this quiz which would indicate a 42 percent chance of dying. Which is amazing. They have a way better than even chance of living four more years! That's heartening. My score on the quiz, by the way, was zero which means, according to the quiz makers that I have a less than four percent chance of dying in the next four

years.

Appropriately enough, on a day that I thought about death, I worked on my taxes, too.

All I did was work on the organizer that I got from the CPA. I made a lot of progress actually. Surprised me. But FFP and I (especially FFP) had done a lot to organize this stuff ahead of time. There were some head-scratching puzzles but most had already been puzzled over.