new responsibilities

i guess i've been so busy with all my vacations that i've forgotten to update about my work situation. now that all my vacations are over, it's time to work hard again. so my manager announced in may that he was retiring at the end of june (after 39 years with my company!!) my manager's manager wanted to try a new process in finding a replacement for him by having 5 employees interview the candidates and i was one of the chosen ones to be on the interview committee. one of the candidates was my team lead! and another one was someone that had interned in my dept a few years ago and i used to go to lunch with her occasionally, and the last candidate i didn't know at all. so right before i left for las vegas we did all the interviews and our committee decided that my team lead was the best candidate. after we talked with our manager's manager, she basically said whoever we chose would be the next manager. so now my team lead is going to be manager, that leaves me with the most experience on the team. so it looks like i'm going to be groomed into the team lead position, but for now since i'm the only one doing a lot of the coding, they need to get more people onto our team to train. so yay, a change. i think it'll be fun and i guess i'll have more responsibility, we'll see how it goes!