This morning was great. I had my annual review in work and it went really well. I was more than happy with it. We only disagreed on 1 of 20 or so points and you know I can live with that. I was marked up in quite a few areas so ya know I can live with that.
Just before I went into my review I spent a while talking to someone who I have not had a chance to get to talk to in a while and that was good.
A conversation I had around lunchtime went something like this, I don’t even remember who it was but someone sent me an im and asked me how it was going. I replied that it was a really good day.
My, how things change.
By the time I left work and it took effort not to just get up and leave at around 5 o’clock the day and indeed the new few weeks had turned into hell.
I know better than to say anything else right now. I am considering several options. I had seen this one coming quite some time off but I somewhat naively thought it would not come to pass. The next person who tells me I’m too cynical and I should be a little more optimistic can shove it.
Gah, I would like to say that I can’t believe the nerve of some people, but in fact I can. I didn’t see that one coming, but I shall make sure I am not caught out by it again.
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I was thinking last night that I would like to actually talk to someone about some work stuff, someone who wouldn’t be coming at things from the same perspective that I do. Obviously I talk to my boss about things like that but more often than not we agree on stuff. One thing that I have thought is that I would like to have the chance to ask some people in senior management how they come to some decisions and things they have to consider. That’s one reason I’ve enjoyed some of the tougher meetings recently. They have been kinda fly on the wall for me. I’m there to cover the technical stuff and debate some merits but decisions are being made alongside that. Struck me that there was a rather simple solution to it. Not something I had given all that much thought to (although we have touched on it before) but my dad is in senior management in his place and has been for quite a while. I’m in Dublin from Friday week and that might be a good chance to talk about some stuff. It’s not like we won’t be down the pub talking anyway. I’m kinda expecting a ‘talking to’ anyway so *shrug*
CSI tonight was excellent. Enjoyed it a lot. They need to do a little more character stories to really take the show to the next level. It has been threatened on and off over the past two years but always seems to fall that little short.
Some comics stuff. I read the second Fables arc last night and it was excellent. Really good stuff especially the last two issues. This alongside Y: The Last Man were Vertigo’s two big success stories last year. Kicking off the latter was doing more for me, but now 6 months into it, I find it to be slipping fast and Fables is just getting better and better. I shall keep up with both but look forward to Fables a lot more. Also read the trade of Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s 30 Days of Night which was a good read with some really really really lovely artwork. A tad on the pricey side, £13.50 for a 3ish mini but the script was a nice extra and shipping every issue signed by the creators was a nice touch. Don’t think the sequel will go on the pull list as I know it will hit trades, but that will be one to watch out for.
oh and yes, email was back this morning.