On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:57:14 +0000, Alex Heney <me8@privacy.net>
wrote:

> On 28 Jan 2007 11:36:28 -0800, whitely525@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On 28 Jan, 19:20, Derek Potter <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> > > Just in case anyone's forgotten, it's Wednesday.
> > 
> > Why on earth do people leave it so late every year...?
> > It may be tedious beyond belief, but if it has to be done it has
> > to be done.
> > 
> 
> But why do it at any particular time?

Good point!

> So long as it is done before the deadline, it really doesn't matter
> just when it is done.

He probably pays off his credit card a month before he needs to. And
writes his Christmas cards in July.

> I actually did mine early this year - about a fortnight ago. But only
> because I thought I might be busy this weekend, since I was only
> arriving back from a week's skiing yesterday.

A dubious strategy unless you're pretty sure about being busy. You
take a very real risk of having wasted some of your few remaining
hours if you happen to get yourself killed on the slopes :)