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.