it's beginning

The boss sent an email to the team asking each of us to send a list of our accomplishments for 2012. I just did. Nervous about my upcoming yearly review, moi?

I.Q.

"I was a clerk in a patent office. Faraday was a carpenter. Isaac Newton was an insurance salesman."

It came out in 1994, and I saw it only once, but I still have fond memories of "I.Q.", where Walter Matthau played Albert Einstein.

a personal victory

There's this project I just finished working on. It had a very narrow window of opportunity, due to the necessary information being kept on the other group's database only from Friday until this morning. I made it, and the results were perfect. The users won't let me sign off though because *they* want to do their own validation "...and we're too busy with other things for the next two weeks..." That's OK. I achieved a personal victory and that's what matters.

deadlines and words

The deadline for Sue's other novel is looming quite large. That means she has to work late, too late for us to have time to watch MST3K's "The Day The Earth Froze" (kind of like Peter Jackson's LoTR but not quite) so I guess I'll force myself to read stories.