There’s been a number of things going on in my life, including a holiday season that was grand, albeit too short, a fun trip to warm weather with some wonderful friends/family, and the general survival of yet another cold, snowy winter where I wonder why the blue hell I still live in this state.

My toughest challenge yet is, unfortunately, job-related.  Before the Christmas break I got my annual review and it was less desirable than I thought it would be.  This led to some general panic for my wife and I, and considering it came two days before my holiday break made it that much more… joyous (sarcasm implied and expressed).

However, once I got back to work I learned that reviews like mine may have been the norm and not the exception, which I guess is good.  We still haven’t been through the cuts we’ve been told we’ll be going through this month, but I feel a little less vulnerable than I did a month ago.  Hopefully all goes well.

If not, for that matter, even if it does, I’ve been working to sort of reinvent myself in a way.  I have many interests and I’m trying to find ways to make the most of them should the worst happen.  There are a lot of fine people on social networking sites such as Twitter who have, unbeknownst to them, given me a lot of tools to help myself become more reliant on my own skills and talents to make my life more enjoyable and less stressful as it relates to the work I do.

So while the uncertainty of my near future fills my thoughts much of the day, I feel confident that my professional life is headed in the right direction in the long run regardless of what happens in the next couple of weeks.

And yes, you can follow me on Twitter.