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worldofluckyI have been sick now for about 36 hours. Not the puking kind (thank the gods), rather the sore throat and fever kind. I was originally going to go into work anyways (after my audiology appointment to check my hearing). However, my beautiful wife ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ethicalcannibal was smart and convinced me to cancel the appointment and not go in.
In addition I stayed home, however I did have the advantage today of being able to work from home. I have an upcoming audit, and it takes about 10-12 hours worth of time to read the entity's minutes and look for areas I will need to investigate. I got a good 8 hour chunk of it done today, from my couch. Have I said recently how much I like my job.
I did get a gentle push by some people higher up to apply for the "Team Performance". This team does the performance auditing for the state (focusing on different projects at different times). They are trying to expand it and it would involve being part of the team that finds ways for the state and local governments to save money. Its a lot more fun type of auditing then financial statements, or federal single audits (and even more fun than accountability auditing - I do all three types for my current team).
However, I wasn't sure this would work for me, and after talking with the wife I am sure of it, so I won't apply. The first problem is the location. I would have to move down to Olympia. While it would put us closer to our Vancouver/Portland friends (and that would be cool), it takes us further from my family in Bellingham, takes the wife away from the college she is returning too in March, and takes me away from my friends. The second problem is the politics. Team Performance is a very politically motivated team. They are sort of the "cause" pushed for by the higher ups. This means a lot more legislative and political scrutiny. In addition the team itself supposedly has politics in between members (one of my current team's people is from Team Performance Audit). I really like my co-workers, I enjoy what I do and I don't really want to deal with politics. Maybe I will look at this again afterethicalcannibal graduates with an accounting degree in a few years.
I am also very happy with our current mechwarrior campaign (not the best transfer between subjects I know). The team is getting along great, I think there is a connection between the characters that has been lacking in most of the recent games in the last 5 years. I especially think this is the case because several people are not super interested necessarily in the tabletop version of Battletech, but they are enjoying the group and the RP that they are satisfied enough.
Rest of my life in a nutshell:
ethicalcannibal was smart and convinced me to cancel the appointment and not go in.In addition I stayed home, however I did have the advantage today of being able to work from home. I have an upcoming audit, and it takes about 10-12 hours worth of time to read the entity's minutes and look for areas I will need to investigate. I got a good 8 hour chunk of it done today, from my couch. Have I said recently how much I like my job.
I did get a gentle push by some people higher up to apply for the "Team Performance". This team does the performance auditing for the state (focusing on different projects at different times). They are trying to expand it and it would involve being part of the team that finds ways for the state and local governments to save money. Its a lot more fun type of auditing then financial statements, or federal single audits (and even more fun than accountability auditing - I do all three types for my current team).
However, I wasn't sure this would work for me, and after talking with the wife I am sure of it, so I won't apply. The first problem is the location. I would have to move down to Olympia. While it would put us closer to our Vancouver/Portland friends (and that would be cool), it takes us further from my family in Bellingham, takes the wife away from the college she is returning too in March, and takes me away from my friends. The second problem is the politics. Team Performance is a very politically motivated team. They are sort of the "cause" pushed for by the higher ups. This means a lot more legislative and political scrutiny. In addition the team itself supposedly has politics in between members (one of my current team's people is from Team Performance Audit). I really like my co-workers, I enjoy what I do and I don't really want to deal with politics. Maybe I will look at this again after
ethicalcannibal graduates with an accounting degree in a few years.I am also very happy with our current mechwarrior campaign (not the best transfer between subjects I know). The team is getting along great, I think there is a connection between the characters that has been lacking in most of the recent games in the last 5 years. I especially think this is the case because several people are not super interested necessarily in the tabletop version of Battletech, but they are enjoying the group and the RP that they are satisfied enough.
Rest of my life in a nutshell:
- Christmas went well, got to see the parents, hang out and visit the rest of the family as well.
- My ankle is doing very well, it aches with me being sick right now, but PT is going fine and I am beyond where I think I would be normally.
- I am still unable to drive, my doc is being super super conservative, this means poor ethicalcannibal is still driving me to and from work (and any subsequent worksites I have to go to).
- Orpheus seems to have recovered, he is pretty much himself.
- Avatar rocks, rocks so much that I am taking the wife and nephew and niece to see it a second time (nephew and niece are seeing it for the first time).
- We are hoping to go down to Vancouver and visit the Vancouver/Oregon folks on the 22nd of January (returning afternoon of the 23rd).
- I am sick of candies/cookies, I cooked a bunch (as did the wife) to give to our local friends/family. I am still gathering recipes to send off to my friends in Australia and England. I want to make sure they survive the journey (and I think I found some damn nice shortbread like cookies).
- Oh, and FIOS is working extremely well, I am so far extremely happy with it over Comcast/DSL.
- I am on Facebook, but am undecided if I want to keep that path. I like a lot of the people, but there is a lot of noise to real communication ratio, maybe instead of FB I will reopen twitter. I got more information that way than I do with FB.
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Date: 2009-12-30 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-30 11:21 pm (UTC)Oh, and don't worry: I'll put up a post as New Years ticks over so everyone in a slower timezone will know that the new year started off okay. ;)
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Date: 2009-12-31 10:43 pm (UTC)I hear you about FB, though I do like that it's helped me get in touch with some folks I would other never have gotten back in touch with otherwise. So I guess in that aspect it's a good place.
Also, I'd *really* like to visit with you guys sometime. Just not sure how to make that happen. :)
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Date: 2010-01-01 04:56 am (UTC)