2022 Year in Review

Some highlights from this year:

Very strong year-end review (best ever at my current employer)
- Substantial pay raise
- RSUs added to my compensation package for the first time in my career
Promoted to senior manager at mid-year
Returned to the office
- Hybrid model of Tuesday-Thursday in-office with Mondays and Fridays still remote
11th wedding anniversary
Twins turned 7 years old
I lost about 10 pounds
Wrote 22 blog posts (including this one)
- Moved this site to Amazon Lightsail (more on that in a future post)
Finally updated my library card so I can borrow books with Libby and in-person
Completed some reading for pleasure, including:
- Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (by Dick Gregory)
  - Borrowed physically from the library
- The first three books of Mick Herron's Slough House books
  - Slow Horses
  - Dead Lions
  - Real Tigers (borrowed via Libby)
- They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition (by George Takei)
- Black Cop's Kid: An Essay (by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
Completed Building Microservices (by Sam Newman) in technical book club at work
Took an actual solo vacation (Philadelphia)

Some lowlights from this year: