This is not a rec room

01 07 09 - 21:22. Category:

We share our office building floor with some big Oregon insurance company. They take up the entire floor below us and have wedged 50 people on our floor into the same space we comfortably keep 30 with some room to spare.They're effectively a customer help/call center.

They're pretty gross, some don't bother coming to work put together, apparently the women's bathroom for our floor is trashed every single day. And then there's this recent development:

Sorry about the camera phone quality, I just snapped this when I had the chance. They use this corner of our lobby as their break room. Employees cycle through it throughout the day. Someone had the idea of bringing these chairs, and then keeping magazines out there.

Seriously? This is not a rec room, this is the lobby of a professional business building. It's part of the image our firm presents to visiting clients. That is not space you lease, camp out in, or hang out on the floor chatting. If you want a break room, don't wedge your company in to the space with no room to spare. It's not too polite to be blocking the maintenance closet either.

They also are fans of standing in the lobby outside a side entrance to our office to talk on their phones. They really do make great neighbors.

AUD = Passed!

27 06 09 - 16:39. Category:

I passed the audit exam! *happy dance*

I have a little more confidence going into my regulation exam, since I passed audit with 87% *another happy dance* I will still be ramping up the studying though. I'm not nearly as familiar with the content as I am with auditing.

I now have until November of 2010 to pass the remaining three portions. Woo!

A Wedding Event

25 06 09 - 21:27. Category:

I'm in Seattle for my cousin's wedding. I'm not too thrilled, because I'm not especially close to my cousins. As an example, the wedding party of my cousins and their friends are out having drinks. I spent the evening hanging out with my parents, my grandparents, and my cousins' parents. Go me. I could use a drink. I'd hope I could get an invite to hang out with the people 10 years my senior rather than the ones 20+ years my senior.

I'm also using my PTO for time off in which I have to shave and get dressed up. No good.

This is why I hate business law

22 06 09 - 13:01. Category:

It's bunch of over-complicated contractual nonsense in which they make up new terminology for their crap just to make it more confusing and easier to exploit:

"Which of the following rights does one cosurety generally have against another cosurety?"
A. Exoneration
B. Subrogation
C. Reimbursement
D. Contribution

Quick lesson, cosureties are individuals who sign to back a liability of the primary borower. Like when parents cosign student loans. In general, if there is more than one cosurety and one pays more than their share, they can sue the others for reimbursment of the share the other cosureties should have covered. So I answerd C...

"When two or more sureties exist, a surety who has paid more than his or her agreed share is entitled to reimbursement from the cosurety in accordance with the surety contract. This right to receive payment is known as 'contribution.'"

Completely effing pointless. Why the hell can't you just call it reimbursment? Business Law, contract law in particular, is riddled with this kind of crap.

Ever heard of the word "scienter?" I hadn't, all it is is another word for fraud, but in business law it's called scienter. The word doesn't even sound real, and it has nothing to do with science.

Suffice to say the regulation portion of my CPA study material and I are NOT getting along.

19 06 09 - 11:23. Category:

Ebony and I grew up together, best friends since third grade. We shared fudgecycles when I didn't know any better. We could only grow old together so long, and it's a terrible feeling knowing she won't be around anymore. She's just gone. Dogs shouldn't age so fast.

I'm sorry for what had to be done today, but it was for the best. She was miserable and was hardly living at all. I just hate myself for it.

The last good picture I got. She'd just lost her hearing so I took her to the vet, she was still giong strong though.

The last photograph I have, David took it this morning before the vet arrived.

I need a hit

18 06 09 - 14:21. Category:

Every druggy has his stash. Mine is in one of my mother's old frozen jam containers.

You've got your four-times daily steroid and antibiotic drops and the much more important lubricating eye drops (yes.. I giggle at "eye lube"). I took a hit from one of these every half hour as perscribed most of this week, now I'm down to an as-necessariy regiment of lubrication and my last day of 'roids and antibiotics.

David caught me at my desk last night, picking up and examining a pile of the single-serving tubes hoping to find just one more hit. I'm trying to kick the habit, I swear.

So what's your drug, and where do you stash it?

Innocent until proven guilty?

16 06 09 - 14:43. Category:

"Section 11(A) of the Securities Act of 1933 provides the following:

a. Any person who aquires securities [stock] may sue the CPA.

b. Plaintiff may sue if the financial statements contain an untrue statement or omit a material fact.

c. Plaintiff does not have the burden of proving that the CPA was negligent or fraudulent.

d. Plaintiff does not have to prove reliance on untrue financial statement or that financial statements were the proximate cause of any loss.

e. CPA [defendent] has the burden of proof to establish innocence or that the cause of hte plaintiff's loss was something other than the untrue financial statement."

So effectively someone who invests in a company and loses money doesn't have to support their clame at all, they just force the CPA to prove it's not their fault. That seems a little backward...

Recovering

15 06 09 - 08:44. Category:

The single biggest misconception I had about Lasik was that it was a simple process with minimal impact and down time. The fact that the procedure itself is only about 20 minutes start to finish is deceiving.

Currently, four days later, my eyes look a little bloodshot and irritated. The swelling of my eyes will not fully disappate for as long as a month (at my age, most likely a week). I'm currently nearsighted but functional as a result (read: squinty eyed).

The process is simple, and the worst of the recovery is definitely over when you wake up the next day. Now it is down to a regiment of eye drops and time to heal. The most challenging part... remembering my lubricating eye drops every half an hour. Can't exactly bring an egg timer to work.