Slammed Into The Wall

I think I've been working a bit too hard lately. Falling back into my old patterns, I've known that it was time to slow down for quite a while. This time, though, something is different. I've finally recognized that I have limitations. Who would have ever guessed? Everything finally slammed me against the wall today when I finally gave up at the office. Don't get me wrong. I still like the job, the people, and just about everything else. I just feel a bit overworked at the moment, due to the fact that we're kind of in transition. I'm finding that I'm looking forward to the weekend a lot more, as of late. That's another new experience for me. See ya.

Back To Basics, Once Again

I've decided that it's time to go back to basics. I was reading through my rantings over the past few years. I think I identified that I was falling into a workaholic pattern, and it spiraled out of control due to other factors in my life. I made several changes since then, but I never really filled in all of the spaces until this past month. I had a great vacation, caught up with friends and family, and got back into community volunteer and mentoring work once again. I just spent some time on an outreach project today at the local children's center. That part of my life has been missing for way too many years. I've also started catching up with my blogging again, which has been kind of nice.

I think it's about time I started to got back to some of my original projects. I'm working on organizing this mess that I call my office. I used to be kind of clever with some of these titles. I think Stuck In The Seventies and its sequel had pretty good titles. I started scanning a bunch of documents and throwing away old paperwork. I never really got out of 1978 in that project. The pack rat in me really couldn't part with a lot of this stuff. I do have a goal, though. When I finish this massive cleanup, I will start using my office to work from home every now and then. I think it's about time. See ya.

Jury Duty

I survived an episode of jury duty without getting called. The boredom of the waiting room almost killed me. It was an interesting process, though. We started at an awful hour of the morning with a brief orientation, and the waiting started. Several waves of people were assigned to rooms, but they kept passing me by. I guess they just didn't feel like picking my name today. I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing that I had access to my work e-mail in the waiting room. I did get some of the more urgent stuff done, but there's still a mountain of work waiting for me at the office in the morning. It's going to be kind of nice to actually get back to the office once again. See ya.

Reality Takes A Vacation

I just took a vacation, and spent a whole week without calling into the office, checking e-mail or voice mail, or even wanting to go back to work. Highly unusual for a person like me, to be sure. Anyhow, I just spent a short time in Hawaii for a quick family reunion. This has been my second trip into Honolulu this year, and I think there may be one more trip later this year. After that, I spent some time with my young friend James. We went to see the new Star Wars movie, played some video games, went shopping, and ate a whole lot of junk food. I'm sad to see the vacation winding down. The harsh reality came yesterday, when the office called me on my emergency personal phone. This time, though, I'm not going back until Monday morning. Change is good. See ya.