So now I’m on break, but it is yet to feel like one. Takes time, all those things, blah blah blah but it’s still the weekend. What if we’re all called back to work on Monday? Then what?
I’m looking forward to getting a good sleep on one of these days, but I also know that there’s a good chance that it won’t happen. I know that I’ve concerns about wasting the time. This is different to annual leave as this one is mandatory as no one is working until some point in the new year.
Anyway, what I have to wonder is what I do with the time that I have.
So the obvious choice is to rest and rest well. Take it easy, do very little. Do almost nothing. I could probably argue that that is something I’ve earned, but I don’t really want to. The sleep, yes, but the rest, no. I’ve spent far too much annual leave over far too many years doing a lot less than I planned and that is not something I want to be doing this time. This time I want to take advantage of the time that I have. Only have so much of it; need not let it waste away.
But the thing is, I don’t know if I will actually make good use of it. This weekend I’m doing the usual weekend things. I’m getting weekend stuff out of the way, but then I need to hit the ground running on Monday. I don’t do that and then that’s it. What else is there to do?
So I need to work hard and I need to work smart, and I need to actually use my time to get things done and get things out of the way. Or, I don’t, but I should. Or something. All that razzamajazz. But I do need to do something with my time, because relaxing will only get me so far and I will get restless. My restlessness is, unfortunately, inevitable. Not something I like too much, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
Of course I could also probably tune out and do a lot of nothing, and then go “Oh, I have all these things to do and only one day in which to do them”, and that wouldn’t be too good, I don’t think. Bad way to go about things when you’ve stuff to do.
Maybe I will just sleep the whole time. Wake up, go to bathroom, go back to bed, sleep. Wake up, eat something, back to bed, more sleep. Cycles of sleeping and waking, with more sleep than none, and that would be better than bad.
But overall it’s going to be a decent time, I hope. I will try and get some things out of the way, and so long as I get more than one, then I think I’ll be able to say I’ve done well. Just need to make sure that I actually do things.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:27:90
Could be better, could be worse. Didn’t sleep well so I think this affected by lack of sleep more than I’d like.
Written at home.





Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1432: Catching up on a backlog
Soon I will be caught up on one thing that has taken me about a year to catch up on, though it may have been longer, now that I think about it. But anyway, soon I will be caught up on one thing, and then once I’m done with that I’ll be catching up on roughly three-and-a-half years of comments. Replying to them all, except for some form one person that I’m not going to go through the process of approving.
Comments are a great way of engaging with an audience, and fair. I get that. But I’ve got to be honest: there was a period here where there was this one person who was just commenting on absolutely everything in a way that made me really uncomfortable, and then I let things get away from me. But now I need to prepare to catch up on all of those words that people have written, and I’ll get there, but it will take some time. But I’ve some time off soon, so that will help.
I should spend the time relaxing, but I probably won’t. After the first couple of days I’ll get restless and then it will be back on. Will be back to powering through everything, and hopefully I will actually get some stuff done. Hopefully. It always depends.
Really, what is coming up will be an interesting exercise in business and work, and working on reducing business, and planning and all those things. Next year is going to be an interesting year, and this year has been also. It has been a time and it keeps on being a time, and I don’t foresee that stopping any time soon. What I hope, however, is that the life part of life calms down a bit, and things get a little more boring, and I can get on with the getting on, but I need to get this place up to date before that can happen.
Now sure, perhaps I should’ve just stayed on top of everything as it was happening. That would be a fair thing to suggest. However, see above about discomfort. You don’t know when that stuff is gonna stop, and it took a while to stop… or at least, that’s how I remember it.
So… yeah. I don’t really know if there’s meant to be anything in what I’m saying here. I just kind of wanted to give an update on two things without mentioning one of them for no real reason. Beyond that… yeah. Got nothing. Meant to be working on a review that gets longer and longer, and I need to cut it down but I’ll be doing that after I’m done here, and hopefully I’m done here within an hour. But everything takes time and time is continuing to be taken, but it’s all okay. It could be worse, but I’ll get there. Always do, except for when I don’t, but we’ll see this time.
And now I’ve nothing else to say.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:30:29
Not great. One of those struggle writes, but I got there in the end.
I think this would’ve been better just as a general post.
Written at home.
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