The job

If you leave out the left-handed virtuosic rock blues guitar playing, adoring fans, tours, recording sessions, millions of dollars, setting guitars on fire, flashy clothes, and drugs, there is very little difference between what I do for a living and what Jimi Hendrix did--oh, and I guess you need to add accounting book editing.

Here is a case in point: Today I found the following in one of my author’s manuscripts:

However, that raises an obvious question: Wouldn’t a FIN 48 determination that a tax position is not more-likely-than-not sustainable upon examination be inconsistent with a taxpayer’s assertion for tax purposes that the position is based on a reasonable belief that the position is more-likely-than-not proper?

In my world, not only is that an obvious question, our book answers it. My author is grammatically correct, although we are disparaging contractions in this particular publication. That isn’t the toughest sentence I have ever seen, although it is the toughest one I’ve seen today. I need to eliminate the contraction and make the material more readily accessible to our readers. Every editor in the world would propose a different solution. Anyway, I will confer with my author about my suggested fix, and we will mutually find a way to alleviate my concerns.

Now, ignore all that: If you want to see the kind of awesome post that make me question why I even bother blogging, there’s this.