Make-up Post

This is the kind of blog post where-in I talk about why I haven’t post­ed any­thing for the past three weeks.

Well, it has been two weeks since Angela and I returned from vaca­tion in Hawai’i with our friends Meg and Travis. That all feels like just yes­ter­day, actu­al­ly. Work has been suck­ing up so much of my time and ener­gy since return­ing. I think there is a set amount of work that must be done, and it real­ly does not care if you leave to go have fun in the Pacif­ic or not. It patient­ly waits and gath­ers it strength until you return.

The very day we left, two rather large sets of shop draw­ings came in for my review. On top of that, a cou­ple of projects came back into focus through some calls from clients. Fur­ther, some of the projects which I had hoped my boss and col­leagues would find time for while I was absent went untouched, as they were even more swamped than I was. The one excep­tion was attend­ing an all day sem­i­nar on changes in the 2003 Inter­na­tion­al Build­ing Code last Fri­day, which seemed like a nice break, odd­ly. Any­way, this just meant some extra hours over the past cou­ple of week­ends as well as just try­ing to stay a lit­tle more focused while at the office. That of course takes its toll men­tal­ly, result­ing in me doing a lot less sit­ting in front of the home PC typ­ing blog posts.

Actu­al­ly, it has result­ed in Angela and I both doing almost noth­ing oth­er than watch­ing TiVo a cou­ple of hours each night and then going to bed. We met at the local Barnes & Noble last night to buy a cou­ple of books for a friend. Sit­ting down over a cou­ple of cups of cof­fee was the most talk­ing to one anoth­er we’ve real­ly done in the last cou­ple of weeks. I guess Ange­la’s sched­ule is even worse than mine, what with flu-shot sea­son begin­ning. I real­ly don’t work the long hours that I did occa­sion­al­ly at my old job, but she still works well over 40 hour weeks, every week. I’m down to around 45 hours per week, which includes some dai­ly slack­ing, I sup­pose, so I think I have it quite nice.

As I’ve pre­vi­ous­ly men­tioned, I have a cou­ple of posts in draft that I’ve been try­ing to find time to work on. This week­end looks rainy, and I don’t need to spend too much time in the office, so I plan to put them up soon. You won’t find your life com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent after read­ing them or any­thing, but at least you’ll have some­thing to do while you’re down­load­ing some tele­vi­sion or upload­ing some photos.

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By Jason Coleman

Structural engineer and technical content manager Bentley Systems by day. Geeky father and husband all the rest of time.

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