Back from Vacation, Back to Work
Apr. 18th, 2022 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerToday 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! 🤣
