April and May Were a Blur Last Year. They Might Be Again.

One thing I remember well from last year is how April and May seemed to go by in a blur. ...Okay, that reads like a self contradiction. What I mean is that I had so much fun travel in April and May last year that everything else, especially working, seems like a blur. Hey, it's kind a nice thing to think back on a time and wonder, "Wow, what did I even do at work during those two months?" 😂

Last year April and May were bookended by trip and filled through the middle, too. Just writing this summary makes me feel a bit dizzy:

• We kicked off April with a 3-day weekend at a resort in Phoenix
• A week later we did a weekend stay-cation through San Francisco and hiked several falls in Marin County
• Later in April we did a 10-day trip to Louisiana and Mississippi and back to Phoenix— to a different resort 😂
• We were home for only 19 hours before an overnight bender to Seattle to spend 15 minutes testifying as witnesses in a criminal trial
• We went to Cayman Islands for my company's President's Club trip
• Then I had a business trip to Las Vegas. ...Okay, that was technically work, but also part of the blur.....
• In late May we took a 3-day weekend trip to San Antonio.

This year looks like April and May could be another blur. ...Not quite yet, though. I mean, it's it's already the 5th and I haven't been more than about 5 miles from home this month. But soon. Starting tomorrow!

• Saturday we leave for 16 days in New Zealand. (Actually it's only 14 days in NZ; one day each way is spent on travel)
• In May we're going to President's Club again. Yes, I won again this year. This year it's in Los Cabos, Mexico.
• We're adding a 3-day weekend at a resort in Phoenix onto the end of the Cabo trip
• We might visit Alaska at the end of May.
• Who knows, maybe we'll squeeze a weekend getaway somewhere in between the above!

On Team EarlyBird This Week

I've been getting up early this week. It's for work. I recently moved onto a project led by people in the UK and on the US east coast. Daily meetings scheduled to accommodate everyone— or at least almost everyone—have been at 7am local time. And one was at 6:30am.

People often talk about whether they're Early Birds or Night Owls. Often it's said that a person is naturally one or the other. I don't think I'm intrinsically on one team or the other. I can switch when I need to. ...Not to say that it's always easy to switch. When I've gotten accustomed to going to bed later, on more of a night-owl schedule, suddenly having to get up at 6 the next morning, or 5 or even 4am 😰, means getting too little sleep and being groggy. But I can adapt to it as a regular thing after a few days.

Thus I haven't been too bothered about starting my workdays early this week. I've simply shifted to going to bed a bit earlier to make up for it. And it's easy to get to bed at 9:30pm after getting up at 6am a few days in a row. The one thing that did bother me this week was when the project leader moved one of the 7am meetings to 6:15am... by sending an email at 6am. 😡 Yeah, no. If you're going to move a meeting that's at the start of my workday, you're going to have to let me know by COB the day before.