Getting away from the office on holiday with the family for a full two weeks is great. Getting back to the office after that break—not so great.
Thankfully it looks like my team have handled everything splendidly while I’ve been away and from what I can tell there are no great problems that I’ve come back to, which is a relief. I did, however have well over 500 unreads in my inbox when opened Outlook this morning, which was not unexpected but not a very warm welcome back either. So after about half on hour of procrastination where I was definitely trying to avoid having to go through all those emails and determine what was spam and what actually required my attention.
I don’t need to tell you that well over half of it was spam, do I? Because of course, it was.
By the time I’d cleared all that out, there was only just over a hundred emails left to look at. Most of them were invoices I will need to process and pay in due course, and once all those had been printed to deal with “later” I’m left with less than fifty, of which less than a dozen really need my attention of the next couple of days.
That’s not bad going.
But now it’s time to get my head down and “catch up” (you’re never really “caught up”) which might take me a couple of days at most. Hopefully, it won’t leave me so wiped out that I’m unable to open my laptop and do some writing this week. The fourth Paul Robertson book, which still has a working title that indicates it’s the last book in the series even though it is very unlikely not to be, has now passed the seventy thousand word mark, which I’m really happy about. I’ve got some of the “business” plot thread to write next, after which I will probably need to sit down and work out in my head (or even, god forbid on “paper”) how to get to a point that I can end this book and finally start the last leg of Paul’s epic journey. I know where that point in the story is, I just need to figure out how to get there.
