Three things

Experiment: switched apple with banana in an attempt to stave off the vicious morning food coma.  Results were marginally better than the day before.  Further adjustments are required to see benefit, will implement further rationing tomorrow.

Observation: I don't like beer.  I've never been fascinated with the inner workings of automobiles.  I can appreciate a good sports game, but i don't follow any teams with the fraction of devotion most men do.  So it was with some relief that as I waked through Tags Hardware this weekend to pick up some curtain rods and colored light bulbs, I felt a growing urge to buy shelves and caulking guns and faucets and almost any other hardware supply I could get my hands on.  It looks like I get to keep my Man's Card after all!

Irony:  The first part of my review is over, where my boss talks about how I rated myself.  The second part occurs within a week, where he will add his own comments and ideas of where I'm at, along with any actual raises.  He said my customer service skills were superb, and that I'd underrated myself in several categories.  "I don't think you look at yourself in the mirror enough, and see all the things you do."

"Yeah," I deadpanned.  "I hear that a lot."