drwex | It really is all about me

Under the cut, shameless ego and good news. Skip it if you're not in the mood.

The past week at work culminated a lot of stress, tension and anxiety for me. Depending on how you look at it, it was all for nothing or all to good effect.

I had my annual performance review. If you know me, you know how I've got some shell shock over past work situations and how this kind of thing is sort of my apogee for acid reflux and nerves. Well, the news this time as all good. I got the second-best rating of the 10 people in my group, which comes with a small raise and a bonus. This is going to take off a lot of the recent financial stress.

Then we had two demos to customers. Both went well despite the usual coterie of technical glitches.

This weekend I blew off all kinds of social activities in favor of spending a little time with my sweeties. Things with the kids could be a whole lot better, but overall I think I'm doing pretty well.