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Reminisces after a fairly dull boring day
May. 6th, 2005 09:45 pmAlmost concurrently with the sun coming up yesterday, Emily's swingset got taken away to a new life. Not by the trash pickup company, but by one of the kinda spooky-yet-cool scavengers who I've occasionally seen plying the trade while walking the dogs on Garbage Night Eve now and again. This one came yesterday morning, while I was in that twilight time between animal feeding and really having to get up for working time. The truck was apparently full of the usual mix of discarded screen doors, hot water heaters and assorted appliance parts. Why someone would want a pile of decaying aluminum, with rusted-out holes around the hardware and full of bees' nests, is beyond me, but hey. One man's trash....
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Today was devoted to getting my Continuing Legal Ed credit in order, mostly, for the 2004-05 reporting cycle- seven glorious 50-minute hours of credit toward my biennial quota of 24 for listening to presentations on the new value exception to the absolute priority rule, appraisal rules and procedures for Pond motions, and the three different kinds of D&O insurance available to fiduciaries of Chapter 11 companies. Thrills.
Today's Batavia-based festivities just happened to fall on a significant weekend. It was 20 years ago today that I made my first appearance before the Bankruptcy Court in Western New York and received my admission certificate from the then-clerk (and now seniormost of the Judges) of the Court. My sponsor was the genius partner who hired me, who just over a year later (and barely two years older than I am now) was dead of a heart attack from overwork. It was a day of reminisces about such things, as so many cases and fellow practitioners from the last two decades were in the room and in my mind as we went over various dull things.
The weekend will bring a sadder recollection. It was ten years ago this week, after moving here and giving up what would have been a lucrative but mind-numbing prior job, that I met with the lawyers who hired me away and we came to the mutual conclusion that their practice wouldn't be expanding in the directions I needed it to. Three months later, I was back on the Thruway with the group I remain with. I remain on great terms with the guys here in Buffalo, but it's still saddening that we couldn't integrate our practices as well as we'd all hoped.
That's enough dullness for one night. I'm still looking for that Austin City Limits video, and will probably have some other tunes to put up before the weekend is out. Lovelies to all:)
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Today was devoted to getting my Continuing Legal Ed credit in order, mostly, for the 2004-05 reporting cycle- seven glorious 50-minute hours of credit toward my biennial quota of 24 for listening to presentations on the new value exception to the absolute priority rule, appraisal rules and procedures for Pond motions, and the three different kinds of D&O insurance available to fiduciaries of Chapter 11 companies. Thrills.
Today's Batavia-based festivities just happened to fall on a significant weekend. It was 20 years ago today that I made my first appearance before the Bankruptcy Court in Western New York and received my admission certificate from the then-clerk (and now seniormost of the Judges) of the Court. My sponsor was the genius partner who hired me, who just over a year later (and barely two years older than I am now) was dead of a heart attack from overwork. It was a day of reminisces about such things, as so many cases and fellow practitioners from the last two decades were in the room and in my mind as we went over various dull things.
The weekend will bring a sadder recollection. It was ten years ago this week, after moving here and giving up what would have been a lucrative but mind-numbing prior job, that I met with the lawyers who hired me away and we came to the mutual conclusion that their practice wouldn't be expanding in the directions I needed it to. Three months later, I was back on the Thruway with the group I remain with. I remain on great terms with the guys here in Buffalo, but it's still saddening that we couldn't integrate our practices as well as we'd all hoped.
That's enough dullness for one night. I'm still looking for that Austin City Limits video, and will probably have some other tunes to put up before the weekend is out. Lovelies to all:)
