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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
"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...
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.
I can see! Moderately well! I can read clocks, but my vision is gone from being ridiculously nearsighted to slight farsightedness. This should disappate with some time. All the pain is gone too.
After the tiny dose of vallium before the procedure and the numbing agent wore off, the "mild sting" was nothing like "soap in my eyes." It was a persistant sting and a terrible ache, I couldn't help but cry. Kept my eyes nice and lubricated at least! David gave me a full dose of Niquil to conk me out.
Speaking of lubrication, I'm not on a three eye drop regiment. Two are four times a day for seven days, the other is a lubricating fake tear to be used every half hour for seven days. The stuff isn't cheap either.
Just a couple pictures:
Waiting to go in for the surgery.
What you can see on the monitor is the doctor lifting the cornea flap off my eye before the laser is applied.
About twenty minutes after I went in with the doctor I was out the door. They get props for having decently looking sunglasses for people to wear when they leave.
Myspace pic! I just had to show off my hairline. This actually is the terrible plastic shield I have to wear to bed for the next seven days so I don't rub my eyes. Not nearly as fashionable as the glasses. I also need to wash my mirror.
My current state of nearsightedness has my a little worried, but I am sure it is only temporary. What used to be impossible for me to see is already possible, and it's absolutely amazing.
I dreamed last night that I was in an epic battle. An epic battle with World of Warcraft siege engines and real people. It was a battle to get to the eye clinic for my Lasik treatment.
There was also a guy who couldn’t pee until we got him more ammo, because apparently people peed ammo…
Then once we successfully took the clinic out of the hands of John McCain we started setting up my procedure.
But then an old friend Morgan showed up, and there was some problem with the machine, and then my parents showed up, so they ha to talk.
It was never going to get done! So I woke up and got out of bed. We leave in about 30 minutes!
Doctor One (the best priced doctor):
My corneas are too thin and I am too young. Combined with my extreme nearsightedness means my corneas would have to be thinned too much. There would be no cornea left for corrections as my eyes get worse.
The danger is that my night vision would suffer halos and glare, and I'd just get worse and need glasses anyway.
Doctor Two (the leading tech doctor):
My corneas are not too thin and I am not too young. There is room for correction now and down the road if necessary. At almost 24, my eyes have stopped changing drastically, and that any changes at this point are minimal. Apparently my eyes have changed by about 0.25-0.50 diapoters, and I don't even notice. The risk of long-term halos and glare is probably somewhere around 2%.
If my eyes ever regressed to 20/40 or worse, corrections are covered with my initial purchase.
Doctor Three (another leading tech doctor):
I have a consultation with them later today. UPDATE: I saw them today, they gave me the same opinion as the second doctor and were willing to do the procedure for $600 more. Same technology, nothing different. They did say that I would most likely have halos and glare at night, but nothing much beyond what I have already.
The Questions:
Who to believe? Is it worth the risk? Is even seven to ten years free of glasses worth the cost? Down the road I'd still be paying for glasses at worst, but they would be significantly thinner.
Already it feels like getting it done would make me infinitely happy. I've got a surgery lined up for this Thursday, unless I change my mind.
Have you ever thought to yourself "this is what will eventually drive me crazy"? I do, and somewhat frequently. It's kind of like the "something will kill me, might as well be X" statement, only a little better.
They're the moments of mundane suffering that you can do nothing about and that repeat themselves to the point that your brain wants to fold in on itself and die. I'm going to go batty someday, the cause is still up for vote. I've decided to keep a list, and here is the latest installment:
First, I had an “Oh hells yeah!” moment at work today. When I imported a client's trial balance into our software I was only out of balance $1. KICK ASS. Update, I'm now out of balance by $535, but it was exciting at the time.
I’m running Excel, IE, Outlook, Engagement (our TB software) and ProSystems (our tax software). Engagement eats computers alive. The program itself is obese, and then each document you open within it is an additional Microsoft Office document. So effectively when working I’m running that list plus 1-3 more Excel documents.
Our systems are pretty nice, they’re running 2.12gHz Intel 6400 duel cores. But they’re running these with one gig of RAM (DDR2 at least). Engagement alone recommends a 2.8gHz processor and 2 gigs of RAM AND explicitly states “Additional memory improves performance and may be required to run additional applications simultaneously.” One gig is the minimum requirement. I've gotten "not enough memory" messages multiple times. I hate sitting here while my computer locks up for ONE program.
Internet Explorer. We've been explicitly told for security reasons we have to use IE, and cannot use Firefox. Yes, I laughed. Coupled with my gimped PC, it's unbearable trash. The tab functionality is slow to the point of causing me physical pain.
Today, it decided to enter some degenerative loop of continually opening tabs, consequently continually freezing itself up. It was glorious in the most hellish of ways.
Sorry to all you with an RSS reader. David updated my blogging software and it looks like it dumped the last 14 or so entries back out.
It's all shiny and awesome though! And I can post from email which will be exceptionally handy for work.
