What a Year!!

Just finished watching the Texans lose a game to the Rams when they were up by 24-3 at the half, and thats not the sad part, what really hurts here is the fact that they allowed 10 points in the 10 seconds so that the Rams can come back and win the game at the end. I know that I am not going to fall off the Texans band wagon so soon, but COME THE F*** ON people you, have a 21 point lead going into the half and you lose it to a team that wasn't good on defense anyways, especially during the game, and the teams third tier QB was in the game, and their running game was almost non existent. It is just so frustrating. I think this has been an accumulation of so many things that the teams I love have done this Year. My favorite college football team also have not been doing good. They started the season with high hopes that they would go on to maybe beat the Texas team, but obviously that didn't come to fruitioin. Then come the Astros, and man oh man they had that run, but I mean what good is that if you are going to be swept up by the Sox in the World Series. Then come the Rockets who have been pissing away like crazy all the hopes and dreams that came with Tracy MacGrady.

I know I sound like the Whambulance, but come on people its like I have to hang my hopes on the Aeros now. None of my other teams have gone to win anything sugnificant. The only team that is barely hanging in there are Arsenal, but they are like 11 points behind Chelsea. The only team that has done anything this year is the Aggie Women Soccer team. They have won the Big 12 league title and the Championship 2nd year in a row. I just have praises for them. They didn't go ahead in the sweet sixteen but they cam across Penn State which was ranked like No. 1 in the nation. All in all 2005 has been such a disappointing year for the Texas teams, especially my teams that I follow. I think I can't look towards the next year and say that anything will come off the teams that have lost and pissed their season awat this year. Oh well there is always 2010.

Shortsightedness or Really good marketing

It amazes me how well the corporations can market their trade or prodcut, cover up their short term losses and mistakes but to its even more ironic how we as consumers can never look past our own little benefit. I refer to the recent gas crisis. The energy companies of today know the fate of their global trade is going to die down in 20-30 years. They know their fate, its not every day that a corporation can, with cetainity, say that they are going to close down operations in a specific number of years, but this seems to be the case this time.

But the consumers who are always apalled at the high gas prisec at the pump are happy again as the news headlines tout the decrease of oil prices of about 23 cents. Is it just me or are we all missing the big picture. Should we care that the simple rules of supply and demand dictate that the oil prices are going to be so high in the future that only the rich will be able to afford the cars, its like we are going back in time to the early 1900's.

I think that there are more things here to be thought about than just alternative energy or alternative car fuel technologies, its like we all are the sailors in a boat and have been taken in by the beatiful sirens of the oil companies, but sooner or later we are all going to be paying through our noses.

Frustration

I was really happy when I started as an auditor and don't get me wrong I still am pretty happy with my line of work, its just that there are so many frustrations in the everyday rut of life that sometimes you get too antsy. There are not always doors that you can wolk through and see the answer. There are days that you feel as if you have really applied what you have learned in school and at times you feel as if you are absolutely horrid at what you do and a monkey could be better of nodding his head at the general direction of where your orders are coming from.

I guess its the direction of where testing takes you and that really bothers me that there are no clear instructions at times and at others there are rules that make you go insane.

But even after that I really feel great whenever I read a new FASB and try to think about the implications or just recently I read the IASB's and it was a revelation. It really gives you an insider's look at the psyche of the people who are designing the rules and regulations.

But its frustrating when you don't have something black and white infront of you and you can decide what to choose and what not to choose.