a year passed by...

I've been working for a year already. Wow. In Stan time, that's an eternity!

Time to reflect on the time passed... at times, I feel that I haven't gotten anything done, but then at other times, I feel that ten people couldn't have accomplished more. Let's see, in the past year I:
- revamped the Travel site for my company
- helped put together the design standards site
- coded up page templates for the aforementioned site
- re-coded them again and again as the requirements changed
- overhauled the three intranet headers that *should* appear on every intranet page
- spent an eternity making sure that everybody who wants to use the headers, can
- taught myself a whole lot of CSS, some JavaScript, and a tiny bit of ASP.NET
- did the grunt work for the external intranet access gateway (currently used, but getting phased out), the ground transportation reservation system (currently used), and now the phonebook (that beast is gonna take forever to design)
- usability-tested the heck out of the HR site, the time-reporting system, various info access apps, and a whole bunch of other things

I guess it makes me feel better that my company allowed me to do what I like to do in my spare time, including traveling to Russia, Indianapolis, Ann Arbor, DC, New York, Las Vegas, England, and California.

Looking back, it doesn't seem so bad. It just that you do feel sometimes like you're trying to run in quicksand. Oh well, gotta keep yer eyes on the big picture, I guess.