bookzombie | I has a shiny!

In an unpresedented move, previously unknown to your correspondent, yesterday I won a Gold Award!

Quick context: the Gold Awards are our annual awards given for various categories of work. You get a plaque and a certificate, and in previous years an all-expenses paid weekend in La Manga, Spain. Now this year, due to the economic stuff, the La Manga trip is not happening but they decided to present the awards anyway.

I've been nominated on a few previous occasions, but never won. Yesterday they decided to give one of the two 'team' awards to the Call Counter Geo team, which was the large and bothersome project that took up much of my time last year.

I have to say I was dead chuffed - for the team as a whole as well as for myself. It was nice to see acknowledged that although the project didn't always go terribly well, a lot of people put a lot of work into making it stable.

And to add to it I had the best Quarterly Review today that I've had for years - some of the comments and feedback were almost embarrisingly positive. It's funny, I didn't think things had gone that well, but the Powers that Be disagreed!

So yay me!