I'm back in Boulder after a vacation home in California. I had a great time at home. All I did was relax, eat, spend time with the family, and play and wrestle with the dogs. It was absolutely wonderful, but that always makes it hard to leave and come back to my adult world where I'm not so spoiled.
The weather in California was strange this Christmas. When I got home, there was quite a bit of snow on the ground. In fact, there seemed to me more snow in California than in Colorado when I left. The snow lasted for a few days until we got some hard rain that washed away/melted all the snow. Some days were cold and windy, but toward the end of the week the weather was beautiful.
It is always tough to come back to work after a vacation. It takes a while to remember what I was doing before I left, and it takes some time to get resettled. But fortunately this will be a short week because of the New Year's holiday.
And when I got back to work, I got some wonderful news that my lovely friend/co-worker just got engaged. So I'm very happy and excited for her, and wish her congratulations!
More (long overdue) updates will come soon...
Monday, December 29, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Absent and Vacations--Quick Update
I realize that it has been quite a while since I've last posted something. After coming back from my Thanksgiving vacation, I've been inundated with work and haven't had much of a break. It's as if going from park to fifth gear in a matter of seconds. Things have been extremely busy, and I've been extremely exhausted. I'll be going home for vacation for the entire week of Christmas, but that means that I have only one week, next week, to get all of my projects in order before I leave. I love publishing, but the difficult thing about working at a job with deadlines is that you constantly have to plan around deadlines and schedules. Next week will be even worse because it will be the week where there are several office holiday parties. Because the economy isn't in the greatest shape, our office will be having a holiday potluck at work instead of a big dinner at a restaurant. Because I'm not going to have much time to cook anything nice for myself let alone an entire office, I've signed up to bring in a few bottles of wine. Next week we also have our department happy hour gift exchange. Things will be busy next week and all of the parties, nice as they might be, will get in the way of getting work done. I have a feeling that I will be getting to work early every day and bringing work home with me every night. Hopefully I'll survive...
Monday, December 01, 2008
Vacation and Back to Business
I'm finally back after a long absence. I'm sure my die hard, loyal readers have been holding their breaths and eagerly awaiting a new post. Ok, maybe not.
Vacation: As you might have guessed by now, I've been away on vacation. I went home to California to visit the family and didn't get a chance to update my blog. Sure I could have written some updates here and there, but I was too busy eating and resting and relaxing and playing with the dogs. As to be expected it was a wonderful trip and a week always seems too short. But fortunately I'll be going home again in a few weeks for my Christmas vacation.
Adventures in Travel: While the trip home was wonderful, the journey back was adventurous. First of all, my flight was delayed. I think that the delays were caused by bad weather in the Midwest, and somehow the series of delays eventually affected my flight. The arriving plane that was then supposed to take me to Denver was delayed, so I ended up being delayed by about an hour. But it is winter and I expect these things to happen, so I don't let myself get bothered by it...unlike a few other people in the terminal who kept asking where the plane was.
There also happened to be an entire team of teenage girls from some kind of athletic team on my flight. Their presence was both amusing and annoying. Amusing in the sense that I'm so old, I can't even remember what it was like to be that young. Annoying in the sense that they were lying all over the floor around the gate, so people had to step over or around them to get from one place to another.
The one good thing that happened was that I was able to get my bag right away from baggage claim. By the time I was able to get from the gate to the baggage carousel the bags were already coming out. I walked up, looked down, and there was my bag. Wahoo! However, that wasn't quick enough for me to catch the 7:00 p.m. shuttle, so I had to wait for the 8:00 shuttle. Another hour delay, so to speak. I got on the shuttle bus and naturally it was crowded with people coming back from vacation. We stopped near a hotel in Boulder, and they broke us up into smaller vans to take us to different locations. This time my van had only three people, so that wasn't so bad. However, the person who got off the shuttle before me accidentally took my bag. It was an older gentleman, it was dark, both our bags are red, so I can see how that could happen, but that sort of took the air out of the sail of my sinking ship. Fortunately, a neighbor of the gentleman called me and was able to bring my bag to me. So that reinforced my somewhat weakening belief that there are still good people in the world. But by the time I got settled at home it was about 10:00, and I was exhausted. What is normally a five hour travel day, ended up being about a nine hour travel day somehow.
Work: Everything at work seemed to be in good order. My teammates did a great job of babysitting my projects while I was away. But there was a lot to take care of today, and this is going to be a really busy and hectic week. I'm already looking forward to my next vacation!
Vacation: As you might have guessed by now, I've been away on vacation. I went home to California to visit the family and didn't get a chance to update my blog. Sure I could have written some updates here and there, but I was too busy eating and resting and relaxing and playing with the dogs. As to be expected it was a wonderful trip and a week always seems too short. But fortunately I'll be going home again in a few weeks for my Christmas vacation.
Adventures in Travel: While the trip home was wonderful, the journey back was adventurous. First of all, my flight was delayed. I think that the delays were caused by bad weather in the Midwest, and somehow the series of delays eventually affected my flight. The arriving plane that was then supposed to take me to Denver was delayed, so I ended up being delayed by about an hour. But it is winter and I expect these things to happen, so I don't let myself get bothered by it...unlike a few other people in the terminal who kept asking where the plane was.
There also happened to be an entire team of teenage girls from some kind of athletic team on my flight. Their presence was both amusing and annoying. Amusing in the sense that I'm so old, I can't even remember what it was like to be that young. Annoying in the sense that they were lying all over the floor around the gate, so people had to step over or around them to get from one place to another.
The one good thing that happened was that I was able to get my bag right away from baggage claim. By the time I was able to get from the gate to the baggage carousel the bags were already coming out. I walked up, looked down, and there was my bag. Wahoo! However, that wasn't quick enough for me to catch the 7:00 p.m. shuttle, so I had to wait for the 8:00 shuttle. Another hour delay, so to speak. I got on the shuttle bus and naturally it was crowded with people coming back from vacation. We stopped near a hotel in Boulder, and they broke us up into smaller vans to take us to different locations. This time my van had only three people, so that wasn't so bad. However, the person who got off the shuttle before me accidentally took my bag. It was an older gentleman, it was dark, both our bags are red, so I can see how that could happen, but that sort of took the air out of the sail of my sinking ship. Fortunately, a neighbor of the gentleman called me and was able to bring my bag to me. So that reinforced my somewhat weakening belief that there are still good people in the world. But by the time I got settled at home it was about 10:00, and I was exhausted. What is normally a five hour travel day, ended up being about a nine hour travel day somehow.
Work: Everything at work seemed to be in good order. My teammates did a great job of babysitting my projects while I was away. But there was a lot to take care of today, and this is going to be a really busy and hectic week. I'm already looking forward to my next vacation!
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