Back from Vacation, Back to Work
Jun. 1st, 2022 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWe got home from our 4-day weekend trip to Sedona last night. Today we're back to work.
"Wait, weren't you at the Subway Cave in Boyton Canyon just a few hours ago?" you might wonder. "Did you cut your trip short and rush home?"
I figure I've got 7 more blog entries to go for this trip. I aim to be caught up by Saturday.... Though it could slip until Sunday if I decide to work in some non-trip writing that's stuck in the queue.
Now, I didn't have work 💯 out of mind. As I did on our Hawaii trip in April, I scanned my queue of work email a few times to make sure nothing was catching on fire. Urgent messages were unlikely this trip, anyway, as Memorial Day was three-day weekend for pretty much everyone in the US. Also as before, I glanced at notifications in Slack a few times, again just to make sure they were nothing I had to address before Wednesday. And "address" would've been me reminding them I'm OOTO for one more day!
One respect in which getting back to work today has not been hard is the physical aspect. We altered our travel plans on Monday afternoon to leave PHX Tuesday afternoon instead of Tuesday late night. The difference was we got home 5 hours earlier. We had time to eat dinner, unpack our bags, shower, and generally relax before going to bed early. That made it easy to get up with my 6:45am alarm this morning and start back at work. Still, though, I'm glad it's only a 3 day workweek!
"Wait, weren't you at the Subway Cave in Boyton Canyon just a few hours ago?" you might wonder. "Did you cut your trip short and rush home?"
Blog Backlogged. Backblogged?
Haha, no, we didn't rush home from the Subway Cave. We hiked Boynton Canyon on Sunday. Today's Wednesday already. As usual my outdoors travel blog is backlogged (backblogged?). There's virtually never enough time to keep up with it when I'm busy doing stuff.I figure I've got 7 more blog entries to go for this trip. I aim to be caught up by Saturday.... Though it could slip until Sunday if I decide to work in some non-trip writing that's stuck in the queue.
Forgetting about Work: Success!
This vacation was a success in at least one key respect: Forgetting about work. For pretty much the entirety of the trip I didn't think about work. That's key because you read about so many Americans being unable to leave their jobs behind when they take vacation. It spoils the whole premise of vacation to have to carve out a few hours here and there to do urgent work. Even if you're consumed by worry about, "OMG, there will be so much piled up waiting for me when I get back," it spoils the intent.Now, I didn't have work 💯 out of mind. As I did on our Hawaii trip in April, I scanned my queue of work email a few times to make sure nothing was catching on fire. Urgent messages were unlikely this trip, anyway, as Memorial Day was three-day weekend for pretty much everyone in the US. Also as before, I glanced at notifications in Slack a few times, again just to make sure they were nothing I had to address before Wednesday. And "address" would've been me reminding them I'm OOTO for one more day!
Now Back to Work
There is a downside to successfully forgetting about work for 4 days. It's that today I'm back to work and have to resume everything! But fortunately, again, it was a 3 day weekend for most of my colleagues and customers, so I'm not too far out of phase.One respect in which getting back to work today has not been hard is the physical aspect. We altered our travel plans on Monday afternoon to leave PHX Tuesday afternoon instead of Tuesday late night. The difference was we got home 5 hours earlier. We had time to eat dinner, unpack our bags, shower, and generally relax before going to bed early. That made it easy to get up with my 6:45am alarm this morning and start back at work. Still, though, I'm glad it's only a 3 day workweek!
