Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Life lately is peachy
I haven't said much about the job yet, so here is the short version:
My actual title is Tax Accountant but I have more of a consulting engineering role. There is a federal tax incentive, a direct tax credit, for doing research and development in the states. Since this can be a pretty big credit, the IRS wants qualification documents in addition to quantification documents. My company goes to these companies, does interviews, gets numbers, and pulls together both the qualifying and quantifying documentation for the credit. What this means for me is that I travel about 25% on average, do a lot of technical writing, and like it a whole lot better than my last job.
I work with some neat people. The whole company is about 20 including admin and execs, so very small, and we do fun stuff. The owner lives pretty close to me, so in inclement weather I may see about getting a ride in to work since my car does not handle very well on snow or ice. Lisa, one of the admin, is about my age and she and I have been doing sushi for lunch every couple weeks at a place nearby. Makes for nice girl time. She is really cool. I think everyone here is between 20 and 45 or so, with a bit of a bell peaking around 28-32. I do not feel young here.
One of the other fun things about working here is that we had this morning off. I think the original plan was to not enforce arrival time around 8am, but management decided that working hours were from 12-5. Since it was only 3 hours off, my best guess is that we would not have been very productive anyway and this was good for major points.
JP came to visit over the Christmas holiday and we had fun. I apparently 'kicked [him] to the curb' on New Years day according to his blog ( jpbergstrom.blogspot.com), but whatever. I was a wee bit hungover :-P He looks great. He did some personal development seminar recently that seems to have been amazing for him. I can't wait to be around him to see the changes.
Mel got engaged, finally. Don did the proposal thing outside a huge statue of the word 'LOVE' somewhere between here and Michigan, and she has this huge, fat rock that is sparkly that she can wear around and catch on things. We went looking at wedding dresses for her this past Saturday at the Posie Patch near the Castleton mall. We arrived about 25 minutes early to browse. Turns out it was unnecessary since they didn't get to us until 20 minutes after the appointment was supposed to start. Then they didn't have the dress Mel wanted to try. So we are going to look at stuff for me as the maid of honor. If you are not comfortable with a stranger touching you, do not go there. No offense, but I do not want some dried up old bag touching me, especially since I intend to have something simple enough to not need trained help. I wasn't going to play with that, so we left. The lady ran straight to the manager, I guess to play pre-emptive defense, but when he asked if he could help us, we just told him we were going to try someplace else. I guess the lesson here is to ask if the place is 'full service' before making an appointment, except that I do not think I would have reacted as badly if we hadn't started late, she had been nicer, and she had been younger. Oh well.
Audra moves into Indy in two weekends. She will continue doing forensic chemistry for the state, just here instead of Fort Wayne. I work Saturdays from like 9-2, so I will just go over after work to help her get settled. I think she and Columbo are going to have the place to themselves.
Ellen – or Luscious Nancy as I call her – is also moving to Indy. She got a job with a small company on the east side and is moving here when she finishes her master's up at Purdue late this spring. Last I heard she and her boyfriend were figuring out if she was going to let him move in with her. I wonder what has happened J
Alex and I are fine, the patio is still a pond full of gravel since it got cold before we got a chance to finish it, and the house is, as usual, in need of vacuuming. The cats are pretty cute: Greebo kept looking for a lap this morning when I was only going to be sitting down for a few minutes and was very annoyed each time I got up. Coconut saw a rabbit outside the window one day and that kept him chirping and Alex and me amused for close to twenty minutes. They play a lot, Greebo goes nuts for a laser pointer, and they like to sleep near our feet at night.
The Colts won last night, Indy is ecstatically pleased, and it is darn cold out.
My actual title is Tax Accountant but I have more of a consulting engineering role. There is a federal tax incentive, a direct tax credit, for doing research and development in the states. Since this can be a pretty big credit, the IRS wants qualification documents in addition to quantification documents. My company goes to these companies, does interviews, gets numbers, and pulls together both the qualifying and quantifying documentation for the credit. What this means for me is that I travel about 25% on average, do a lot of technical writing, and like it a whole lot better than my last job.
I work with some neat people. The whole company is about 20 including admin and execs, so very small, and we do fun stuff. The owner lives pretty close to me, so in inclement weather I may see about getting a ride in to work since my car does not handle very well on snow or ice. Lisa, one of the admin, is about my age and she and I have been doing sushi for lunch every couple weeks at a place nearby. Makes for nice girl time. She is really cool. I think everyone here is between 20 and 45 or so, with a bit of a bell peaking around 28-32. I do not feel young here.
One of the other fun things about working here is that we had this morning off. I think the original plan was to not enforce arrival time around 8am, but management decided that working hours were from 12-5. Since it was only 3 hours off, my best guess is that we would not have been very productive anyway and this was good for major points.
JP came to visit over the Christmas holiday and we had fun. I apparently 'kicked [him] to the curb' on New Years day according to his blog ( jpbergstrom.blogspot.com), but whatever. I was a wee bit hungover :-P He looks great. He did some personal development seminar recently that seems to have been amazing for him. I can't wait to be around him to see the changes.
Mel got engaged, finally. Don did the proposal thing outside a huge statue of the word 'LOVE' somewhere between here and Michigan, and she has this huge, fat rock that is sparkly that she can wear around and catch on things. We went looking at wedding dresses for her this past Saturday at the Posie Patch near the Castleton mall. We arrived about 25 minutes early to browse. Turns out it was unnecessary since they didn't get to us until 20 minutes after the appointment was supposed to start. Then they didn't have the dress Mel wanted to try. So we are going to look at stuff for me as the maid of honor. If you are not comfortable with a stranger touching you, do not go there. No offense, but I do not want some dried up old bag touching me, especially since I intend to have something simple enough to not need trained help. I wasn't going to play with that, so we left. The lady ran straight to the manager, I guess to play pre-emptive defense, but when he asked if he could help us, we just told him we were going to try someplace else. I guess the lesson here is to ask if the place is 'full service' before making an appointment, except that I do not think I would have reacted as badly if we hadn't started late, she had been nicer, and she had been younger. Oh well.
Audra moves into Indy in two weekends. She will continue doing forensic chemistry for the state, just here instead of Fort Wayne. I work Saturdays from like 9-2, so I will just go over after work to help her get settled. I think she and Columbo are going to have the place to themselves.
Ellen – or Luscious Nancy as I call her – is also moving to Indy. She got a job with a small company on the east side and is moving here when she finishes her master's up at Purdue late this spring. Last I heard she and her boyfriend were figuring out if she was going to let him move in with her. I wonder what has happened J
Alex and I are fine, the patio is still a pond full of gravel since it got cold before we got a chance to finish it, and the house is, as usual, in need of vacuuming. The cats are pretty cute: Greebo kept looking for a lap this morning when I was only going to be sitting down for a few minutes and was very annoyed each time I got up. Coconut saw a rabbit outside the window one day and that kept him chirping and Alex and me amused for close to twenty minutes. They play a lot, Greebo goes nuts for a laser pointer, and they like to sleep near our feet at night.
The Colts won last night, Indy is ecstatically pleased, and it is darn cold out.
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