The title might make the reader to think this is one of many posts that appear in this time of the year in blogs all around the blogosphere. Excuse me, but this is not the case… I’m not saying good-bye, trading the workplace with some tropical paradise to spend a well deserved vacation. I will, eventually!…
This post is about how I saw my vacation delayed yet another week. Yep! The costumer asked to get the delivery before the end of the month… So, first deliver the product, then and only then, vacations…
Now, more than ever, I think that I started sprinting the marathon a few months ago, and it’s still going…
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I usually use my own car to travel to work everyday. Unfortunately, the public transportation (the BUS, or as called in the province of this small Portugal, “carreira”) near my home is quite scarce, and I only tend to use them when strictly necessary. On the other side, I some times use the car to travel half the way and them take the train the rest of the way.
The last option has a lot of benefits. The first benefit is related with the smaller carbon footprint os using the train (instead of diesel “tank”*). Secondly, this kind of travelling provides with much more time for reading. And I love reading…
So, with don’t I use the train every single day? Because it takes me almost one hour a day more than when using the car.
* “tank” is the caring name I use to refer to my sweet old car!
Let me start by saying “I need a vacation”.
That being said, today’s thought goes to my obvious lack of concentration. I suspect that not being on vacation for six months in a row is the major cause of sensing some difficulty in concentrating. And worst of all, this is becoming evident for the people around me. This week, several events have brought that to my attention. Dramatically…
I’ve never considered myself stupid, but this week:
- I was unable to find a word in a book index (of course the word was there)
- I forgot the hours of scheduled meetings (4 out of 5)
- I was unable to find an evident option in one of the applications I use regularly
- and… I forgot the forth event… I know, depressing…
I need to go on Vacation, soon…
I’m home! …alone, as the title suggests!
The weather is kind of crappy, with lots of dark clouds in the sky. So, although my wife and daughter decided to visit her mother/grand-mother, I decided to stay home and work on somethings that are pendent from last friday.
Yeah! I brought work home, once again… It’s reaching a point were it’s not even comfortable anymore. To much work to do, and not enough time to do it.
Last weak I tried to stick to office hours. That ‘effort’ lead to only a couple of hours more than a regular work week, but because of that work followed me home! A couple of simple reports, but I’m becoming really tired of bringing work home.
This is the first message after a brief period of absence. You might be thinking “Why the absence?”. It’s easy to explain… My time for anything else that work is very limited. The current workload is huge, and so the blogging related activities are postponed.
It wasn’t even because I was struck by a lack of ideas… I had several nice ideas for posts, but hadn’t had the time to put any of them down. Even photography has been put aside for a couple of weeks. It’s the first time that any of my cameras don’t shot a single picture for so long.
