Day -1: Recovering

Since I'm technically still employed until Monday, this isn't really even day 1 yet.  OK, and I'm a technology geek.

My time off started with a bang.  Last night on my way home my car battery died.  Had to call AAA to get me home.  Looks like I need a new alternator.  Always nice to have big expenses right as you lose your job.  Oh well, maybe it's an excuse to play more poker to earn some extra income.

Today was about recovering from the last couple of weeks.  I haven't been working very hard but work has been emotionally exhausting.  I made a list of projects to work on while it helped me get organized, it also seems a bit overwhelming.  And I decided to use the product I've worked on to see if we can attack these projects in an Agile fashion.  So I organized my work and uploaded all of it into Serena Agile.  In the process I found three really bad bugs.  While finding bugs is normally exciting, it was actually a bit disheartening to see problems in production and to spend my last week working on real problems.  As such, I really haven't been motivated to do much around the house.

So today is about doing dishes, running several loads of laundry, going through the last week of mail (some email too), putting away the stuff I brought home from the office, cleaning out the fridge, and doing some grocery shopping.  But first, I got to sleep in late for the first time in a really long time.  I think I got up about 10:30.

Oh and I made it to gym for the second day in a row.  Good.  And I stepped on a scale for the first time in weeks.  Bad, very bad.  Tomorrow I buy a new scale.