Holiday Hibernation...

One of the hardest things I've always found was the transition back from the holidays. Much like the adjustment of coming back from a great and distant vacation, the mind has problems adjusting. We get use to going to bed late and waking up whenever our bodies tell us it's time. Our brains are no longer in work mode, thinking about work things. It's just time to eat good food and do as little as possible. Or is that just me?

This year, instead of the normal week off between Christmas and New Years, I decided to divide up my work holiday break into two four-day weekends with a three-day work week squeezed between them. I did this for several reasons: to help ease the adjustment back into a regular schedule, because we have a deadline Tuesday next week which I need to make some serious progress on, and if I work during the "shut down" I can use those days later on during the year, like say during an extended trip to Europe or snowboarding in Colorado. w00t!

But coming into work with no one here, while nice for it's lack of distraction, is not very motivating I must admit. Oh well...