In honor of the shortest month of the year, I bring you a shortened edition of "Four Truths and a Lie." This time around, it's three truths instead of four. Three truths and one pretty good lie. It's not a great lie this time, it's just pretty good.

WHOA, see how believable I am? I had you convinced it wasn't a great lie, when it is, in fact, a truly great lie! Seriously, you'd better sharpen up if you plan on guessing correctly. Ready? OK, let's begin:

1) I finished doing my taxes last week. Ever since I got my first job, my mom always said, "If the IRS owes you a refund, you're losing money." And she's right. Blah blah blah, essentially giving the government an interest-free loan, blah blah. Anyway, imagine my surprise this year when I realized that doing what my mom said will result in me owing an additional ONE MILLION DOLLARS* to the government by April 15th!

* - I may have rounded this dollar amount up for dramatic effect. The point is that I owe and it's my mom's fault.

2) There's a small area on my head where gray hair will occasionally sprout. It has been there since I was a wee lad, probably around age 3. It's not solid gray, but it's noticeable from up close. However, recently I've noticed that gray hairs are appearing all over the place - even in my facial hair. Make no mistake, this is not OK with me. I'm saddened by the fact that I've thought about hair coloring before my 31st birthday.

3) On "Super Tuesday," I took the boy with me when I voted. In the voting booth, all of the Democratic candidates were listed on the left side, Republican candidates on the right. I'm a registered Democrat, so the Republican options were all disabled. I moved the little levers to indicate my choices. The boy thought that looked fun, so he tried to do the same. Except that the lever he was trying to move was next to Rudolph Giuliani's name. Of course it didn't work, because the levers on that side were disabled. I could see he was starting to get frustrated, so I told him, "No, you don't want to vote for him. We want this one over here (pointing towards the candidate I voted for)." I de-selected my choice so that he could do it. This was not OK with him. He would not settle for anything that didn't involve voting for Rudy Giuliani. I tried a different approach. "Even if we could vote for him, he's not even running anymore. That would be a wasted vote!" He wouldn't back down. So I quickly re-cast my vote, got our stickers, and got out of there before the small tantrum escalated. Now I know why they don't let three year olds vote.

4) The rate of posting has slowed down a bit over here. This is partially because I'm more busy than normal, but it's mostly because I realize that I'm only a few posts away from #500. I want to do something big for the 500th post, but I haven't yet narrowed down what that "something big" will be. So I'm stalling.