So yeah, I drank the Kool-Aid (It is blueberry flavored).  Performance reviews are coming up and I have to do my self-evaluation.  It got me thinking about working in general about stuff and how I’ve actually become a bigger fanboy of Microsoft than I was before I started working here.

The culture is shockingly open.  I’ve had the chance to be on Channel 9 multiple times, most recently on This Week on Channel 9 and talk about what has been going on.  Rory Blyth gave me the first taste of it and I have to say I do love it.  While at the time, I was semi-freaked out by back then Rory but I had an awesome time.  I’ve seen some awesome arguments on some email threads.  I honestly would have been afraid to do most of the stuff I do at my old jobs.

As a ADE (Academic Developer Evangelist), I get to go to colleges, talk about why students should learn programming and help out.  Would you go to Fargo, ND during December?  I did and it was AWESOME (cold too).  I give expensive software out to students and universities for free!  More so what I’ve realized is students geek out on stuff I’ve built.  Who doesn’t want to learn about building a Segway?  Plus I get to play with new stuff like Ruby, Excel, Silverlight, LINQ, movie editing, PowerPoint, and Visual Studio for my job.

And yes, this was the perfect way to actively avoid writing my performance review for a while.  I think my skateboard needs a start up protocol written …