Some highlights from this year:
- Very strong year-end review (best ever at my current employer)
- Substantial pay raise
- RSUs added to my compensation package for the first time in my career
- Promoted to senior manager at mid-year
- Returned to the office
- Hybrid model of Tuesday-Thursday in-office with Mondays and Fridays still remote
- 11th wedding anniversary
- Twins turned 7 years old
- I lost about 10 pounds
- Wrote 22 blog posts (including this one)
- Moved this site to Amazon Lightsail (more on that in a future post)
- Finally updated my library card so I can borrow books with Libby and in-person
- Completed some reading for pleasure, including:
- Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (by Dick Gregory)
- Borrowed physically from the library
- The first three books of Mick Herron’s Slough House books
- Slow Horses
- Dead Lions
- Real Tigers (borrowed via Libby)
- They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition (by George Takei)
- Black Cop’s Kid: An Essay (by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
- Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (by Dick Gregory)
- Completed Building Microservices (by Sam Newman) in technical book club at work
- Took an actual solo vacation (Philadelphia)
Some lowlights from this year:
- Ending contractor terms early for performance reasons
- Navigating a headcount freeze (which will persist into 2023)
- Not enough exercise
Libby is the best e-reader app I’ve found out of the ten or so I’ve tried over the years. It’s so good I wish I could use it for non-library books.