four hours with the auditors

We've got an audit coming up, and today was the last of several warm-up meetings that are laying the groundwork.

We're a tiny (14 person) software shop, and we're trying to reach COBIT-level maturity. The auditor, naturally, is speaking in terms of having a control/oversight department around to monitor our processes on an ongoing basis. It's going to be an interesting summer, especially as we're doing this in the midst of big rollouts for all three of our clients.

On a brighter note, I was able to switch the sprockets around on my increasingly customized bike, and I'm now running with a nice fat sprocket on the front axle. Much fewer revolutions, and more power. Woohoo! That said, it would nice if the commute route I'm following was at least pleasant to look at. As it is, I seem to wend through a series of rather shabby districts. I suppose it can't be helped; in this retrograde era of ever-escalating real costs of energy, attractive cities are going to be harder and harder to maintain.