Crikey.
In March, I was on the mountain top, communing with Walter the Muse. In April, I'm in the valley, and Walter's gone to the beach. Seriously, it's like Ground Hog Day on April 1.
I'm transitioning out of the old day job. I'm still going in for a couple hours a week to do paperwork and banking, and scheduling and inventory if it's needed. I hope to be able to dump it all on my replacement mid-May and walk away with my tiny 401k.
The new day job has taken a few more hours a week. It's mostly set up right now--opening a bank account, putting together files, choosing software, and suchlike. It's fun, really, but it does take time. I'm working with grown-ups again, and that's a big improvement. We have our first preview service May 14.
On top of that, I have two trips lined up in the next two weeks. It's family stuff and should be fun, but the timing (as is almost always the case) could be better. I hope to be able to relax a little at the very least.
And then there's the news that a close family member is facing a long illness. They caught it super early and have to do more tests to figure out a treatment plan. On the other side of the family we are dealing with a recent suicide.
In the miscellaneous irritant category, I'm upgrading from my 23" iMac (Little Mac) to Eric's 27" iMac (Big Mac) so I can donate Little Mac to the church. That's meant a lot of moving data from one machine to the other, or into cloud storage. I think I'm in the home stretch, but it hasn't been smooth or fast. On the plus side we found a bunch of old pictures and it's been fun to look through them.
Writing? Yeah. I've got some words in, but not many. In the last week or so, it's been more a matter of sitting down and typing stuff that may or may not be cut later on the good days. On the not so good days, I stare at my documents before going back downstairs for coffee and Netflix.
To say this vacation is much needed is a bit of an understatement. I hope, during the first, to have an hour or so a day to get some words in, even if it's just free writing. The second week it's less likely to happen, but it is possible. When I get back I'll have a week before the preview service to get all the details associated with my job squared away. Until this morning I had it in my mind that I'd come back from the second week away and have the preview the next day. Realizing I have a week in between has lowered the stress level somewhat. It means I don't have to do my entire page-long to do list today.
So, yeah, come on, May!
1 comment:
Perhaps Walter will come back refreshed and full of ideas...or we send a squad of Marines to get him. :)
As long you can plan, you will be able to find time for writing. It sounds like you know what your schedule is going to be; now you have to hack it.
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