Things are happening

Things are, indeed, happening. It’s raining quite a bit today, grey skies, boring traffic on the drive to school. But it’s also Friday, there’s coffee here, I’m in my happy place, down at my desk in the study. Movement with work, with Cicada Ink, and with writing too– I guess this is a bit of a progress update, more than anything. Things with work are going well. I think after nearly thirty years of working in IT I’ve finally reached a point where I feel like where I am is working for me. (Maybe more like twenty-eight? I think it was something like 1998 when I got my first IT job, a temp 6 month contract in HR for a company called Comtex here in Wellington. Everyone had to do three tests before they could start, a literacy test, a numeracy test, and another one that might have been a personality test, I can’t remember. Everyone loved personality tests in IT in the 90s. I somehow scored the highest on the maths test than anyone else in the company (I still don’t know how that’s…