The First Six Months of the Rest of My Life
So today is my 6 month wedding anniversary. I have to say, I love my wife so much. While I find myself flawed more often that I should, everything about her is perfect. Living with her has been the best time of my life. I can only see that continuing.
The holidays were great. We had Christmas with the In-Laws for lunch, and my parents for breakfast. New Years was spent with friends, and the rest of the holiday has been spent relaxing. There was even a 12-hour Lord of the Rings marathon in there somewhere.
The other part of my life at the moment is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. What a spectacular game. I have invested about 70 hours so far, and I feel like I'm only 2/3 through it. There are so many side quests, and things to do. Not to mention you can just start a new character, and choose all the other options. It's almost a whole new game.
Work starts again tomorrow, and it's going to be the end of my acting Team Leader position. I look forward to the lessened responsibility, but am a bit sad about the lower pay grade. Considering I never actually received a pay at my "new" level, it was all just back-paid at once, it won't be that much of a shock.
Life keeps on moving. I might keep you informed, however because "you" is basically no one, I might not. Who knows.
Leading the Team
So over the last few weeks I have been acting as Team Leader at work. I think that as this time is wrapping up, I will be glad for the break back to normality.
The position isn't that much different from what I was doing in my "pleb" role, but I was responsible for more of the "fixing" problems, than actually "telling people that we know about" problems. Some problems were easily fixed; you would make a phone call, talk to the system administrator, and the issue would be resolved. Others require more finesse, where you make 5 phone calls to work out who would be responsible for the system, then find out they are away that day.
You are also responsible for the communication to the senior staff. That's the scary part. A problem is raised, it is completely up to you if you send communications or not, how you send them, when you send them etc. And if they aren't right, someone gets in trouble. Luckily, this only really happened two or three times, and in those times, I only made a poor decision once. And my Manager (who got the blame) was ok with it. He is a great guy.
Long story short, it has been a stressful month-and-a-bit. This has impacted on my home life and my side-projects a bit as well. StationeryReview.com has suffered from lack of reviews, and while I have been working on TheLeek I haven't put as much time in to it as I should have.
In the coming weeks, Skyrim is coming out, and I am hoping to make the most of it. I might even get a review posted (depending on how much I can play, and if I have the time.)
Have Fun Y'all,
Andrew