No closing announcement on the Tax Court website, just the usual “nothing happens before 3:30 p.m. Eastern” on the opinions and designated orders pages, and no orders today, 3/21/18.

The flailing datestampers and hard-laboring intake clerks are conspicuous by their absences.

I guess the Snowman has put the Glasshouse Gang on teletubby again.

But take heart, O ye procrastinators and deadline-beaters, frozen like statues on the Glasshouse steps, with un-efileable paper in your chillblained hands. Remember Felix Guralnik and Octavia.

What, you don’t? I know it was two years ago, but still and all…Check out my blogpost “Neither Equity Nor Designation,” 6/2/16, for what to do when “the weather outside is frightful, but the fire’s so delightful,” as Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne put it.

Me, I’m taking the day off.