Friday : 24 March 2006
Today was a good day. It started with frozen mocha goodness, which is a good way to start almost any day. I had to head back to the SLC office to pick up a couple of odds and ends before heading to my office.

I made it to Happy Valley without much ado. My Team Lead came up to me a short while later and asked if I “…wanted to go over my goals.” That’s right: Annual Review time. Yay. I wasn’t terribly worried about it, but there’s still that measure of sphincter tightening when your boss wants to have a meeting. It went very well. He paid me a couple of very nice compliments – I worried were the “attaboys” before the butt chewing… but the butt-chewing never came. In a nutshell, he is been happy with my performance and the projects that I have taken the initiative on. We talked about some things that both he and I think that I should do in the future – he had some pretty cool thoughts on the matter and liked things I mentioned that I wanted to do.

Then came the more subjective questions. He asked how I liked the work environment and other things in our office. I gave him the honest answer. I’m not sure what he expected, but my first answer made him laugh – which was the intent. I went on to explain how I feel about my team coworkers and the other teams in the office. I didn’t really have any negative things to say, so that part was pretty easy.

In the end, it was a painless review; in fact, I would rate it among the best/easiest reviews that I have had.

After dinner (and some frisbee-playing) with and her family, I had a couple of errands to run and then it was off to Clitorati. On the way, I wound up behind and Matt on State Street. I almost didn’t recognize them because of a couple of MASSIVE wigs they were wearing. I called them to make sure that I wasn’t seeing things; I wasn’t. Then, it was on to coffee. Moderate-sized group. Good conversation. I think that The Not-Yet-LJer Known as BabyArmadillo42 and I bonded tonight. That was fun.

The High-Flying Adventures of Indigo Bolt –
I reteamed with the group I’ve been playing with for the past few nights. Had a few good runs. Now I’m about a bubble-and-a-half away from 31st Level.

Stray Toasters

  • I have spun sugar confectionary goodness!
  • A few months ago, I stopped reading The Tao of Geek regularly. That’s a shame… especially because that means that I missed this story arc.
  • Joss Whedon is considering using Lynda Carter in his forthcoming Wonder Woman movie “…[if] it’s right for the movie. It’s just a question of I’m not going to do something that isn’t integral to the film. If I found something that was right,absolutely, but not if it takes you out of the narrative.”
  • Gamemaster’s lament:
  • : Broken Frontier’s look at Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #16″

Namaste.