Brandon's Blog

1/3/2008

Reasons Why

Across the financial landscape there is a somewhat lengthy moment at which Accounting is going full bore at their duties, and Finance has trailed off to a standstill.  This event culminates (into a “perfect storm,” mind you) at the point of Closing, which means — cynically — that all your temporary mistakes have become permanent.

It then becomes Finance’s job to begin reporting, but my specific position really ramps up on the next day (that would probably be Monday for me this month), after which the Data Warehouse updates with the prior month’s (or in this case, year’s) mistakes.

We are at the initial phase of the Moment, right now.  Which means Nickel Creek is playing that ferocious back-to-back of “Reasons Why” and “When You Come Back Down,” both of which have likely (if I had not just wiped my iTunes library… on purpose) attained epic play count stats on the Nano.

EZ-E is full bore right now, as evidenced by my calling of him recently with a jovial tone, to be met with a somewhat frenetic deferral to some later point in the evening.

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Have I ever mentioned that I have a chalkboard in my office?  Not for long, once we occupy the new cubes outside of the plant, but for now.

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I think we’re reaching the point where Accounting starts communicating by just yelling down the hallway from their desks.  That tends to happen late in the day on the 2nd workday.

Never uninteresting, this job is…