Yeah, it’s been a while since a blog article was published. As I told a concerned reader, I’ve had an article half-written for too long now. (Either an article gets written in one fell swoop, or it dies from lack of passion.) Every so often I pull it up and type a few more words … but so far it’s been a painful process akin to pulling teeth without anesthesia.

I’ve also been thinking about how the FAR Councils don’t understand what a final cost objective is, and how that lack of understanding negatively impacted the June 2011 revisions to the 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment clause. But that article’s going to take quite a bit of work, and I can’t find the time or the energy.

I can find neither the time nor the energy to get articles written right now, because of both professional and personal issues. First, I’ve been up to my eyeballs with work at my primary employer. We’ve got a new incurred cost audit started and DCAA is playing hardball right now. (As is their right. No whining here.) And I’ve been having a time of it in the personal realm as well. Moving one’s family half-way across the country and putting the kids into new schools has a way of sapping a person’s attention, you know?

That’s not to say everything has been doom and gloom. It’s just that in the larger scheme of things, writing blog articles falls toward the bottom of the stack, somewhere between posting updates on Facebook and reading new headlines on Fark.com. Far below new Season 3 episodes of Person of Interest.

Which is to say: Please be patient.

I have not given up writing articles for this website. But as I told you, this is hiatus time.

I will return.

In the meantime, I am very pleased that the DOD has told DCMA and DCAA and DFAS folks to come back to work. Although I have professional differences with many civil service employees at the Department of Defense, nobody should be treated as a pawn in a game of power politics.

Welcome back to work, folks.