Meniskus, again!

When we were watching Meniskus last week, we were informed of a special show in Boulder tonight.  So we’re going to do that!

In other news, we completed our iteration-close tradition of hitting balls at the driving range despite the unusually crappy weather.  There was a break in the rain, so we decided to give the driving range a try.  As we were getting our balls from the machine, raindrops started to fall but it wasn’t bad enough for us to stop.  Before long, however, it was coming down enough that we ended up orphaning around 1/4 bucket of balls in order to get to a drier locale.

The rest of the work day was somewhat eventful, I have officially been made a team leader.  My official title is now “Integration Lead Architect” and I will have a new person to manage.  I get to share responsibilities with my manager, who is going to handle personnel issues and performance reviews but I will have day-to-day leadership over someone for the first time in my career.  My manager is going to mentor me on how to handle and process the personnel issues, so I will get to grow my skills as well.  I’m very happy about this situation, it should be fun!  Sadly, this doesn’t mean a raise or promotion this year, since the economy has frozen both of those things in our group (like most everywhere else).  But it is good staging for a big one next year!

My former team leader, Paul, is moving within the organization because his development expertise is required elsewhere.  Just because we’re not officially associated any more doesn’t mean we’re still not going to work together, which is a very good thing.  I’m going to miss the opportunity to code side-by-side with him, though.

That’s all for now, Tasha and I are heading out for dinner before the concert!