Back from Vacation, Back to Work
Today it's been back to work for us. No, we didn't just zip home from the middle of our 9 day trip to Hawaii- especially not after posting just this morning about how I kept work at arm's length while on vacation. As usual for when we travel, my blogs about the trip are backlogged. In blog time it's 5 days ago.
Rather than let everything get backlogged behind the trip I've decided to take a two-track approach and keep working down the Hawaii backlog while also posting about other things as they happen. For today the major thing that happened was getting back to work- and the rest of normal life.
Coming back to work after a week off is always challenge. The work doesn't stand still just because I'm not there. Projects I'm involved with move forward and new projects/tasks/challenges await my return. That's why I spent a few minutes a day triaging my mail and Slack messages- I didn't want to start Monday morning with tfires already burning out of control. Thankfully nothing was burning badly. As I mentioned before, this is due in part to my team respecting the meaning of vacation time. I appreciate that.
While work doesn't stand still while I'm gone, unfortunately things at home do. In particular, my poorly behaving home internet connections (both of them) are still behaving poorly. I still need to spend time chasing the providers yet again. The insurance claim for our stuff that was stolen in Hawaii didn't file itself. I spent an hour on that today and still have more legwork to do.
And the rest of my blogs about Hawaii? Well, those stand still without me, too. 😅 My goal is to catch up on them by Friday; hopefully in time to do something fun this weekend- and blog about it- without those getting backlogged, too! 🤣
Rather than let everything get backlogged behind the trip I've decided to take a two-track approach and keep working down the Hawaii backlog while also posting about other things as they happen. For today the major thing that happened was getting back to work- and the rest of normal life.
Coming back to work after a week off is always challenge. The work doesn't stand still just because I'm not there. Projects I'm involved with move forward and new projects/tasks/challenges await my return. That's why I spent a few minutes a day triaging my mail and Slack messages- I didn't want to start Monday morning with tfires already burning out of control. Thankfully nothing was burning badly. As I mentioned before, this is due in part to my team respecting the meaning of vacation time. I appreciate that.
While work doesn't stand still while I'm gone, unfortunately things at home do. In particular, my poorly behaving home internet connections (both of them) are still behaving poorly. I still need to spend time chasing the providers yet again. The insurance claim for our stuff that was stolen in Hawaii didn't file itself. I spent an hour on that today and still have more legwork to do.
And the rest of my blogs about Hawaii? Well, those stand still without me, too. 😅 My goal is to catch up on them by Friday; hopefully in time to do something fun this weekend- and blog about it- without those getting backlogged, too! 🤣