10 days of vacation

After 10 days of vacation, and one day of working, I am surprisingly almost back on track. The 10 days “only” created some 1200 unread email I should go through, but I found a “select all unread - mark read” works surprisingly well. Of course, some mailing lists (or many rather) I have to go through, and it will take weeks to catch up. Specifically as the vacation was so late in the summer that the people I work with already is back and up to speed. I simply had to work 100% already yesterday (the first day). In reality, I had to fly to Stockholm already this first day and talk with people about colorcoding of broadband products. A project a group I was leading on behalf of the Swedish Government was leading 2003-2006 created. More about that project later.

And today, more meetings, but this time in Malmö. After that, two days where I really can catch up before I fly to the USA again. A week of hectic work in the Bay Area.

Is this a weird start? Well, not weird for me. My life is like this. A week a month in a hotel somewhere, and the weeks interrupted with talks or discussions somewhere closer, but often still involves flying.

I am flying a lot. Not as much as the ones that fly every day because they live far away from their office. But I fly to mostly random destinations. Well, often enough that even the random destinations become familiar. Ask me about immigration in the US and I tell you what airports to use (hit: airport code ORD is the best among the ones SAS fly to).

Vacation then, hmm…driving more than 4400km in 8 days seems crazy as it builds 500km average a day. 500km… a trip many people (including myself) plan months ahead, and I did 8 of them in a row.

But it gave me the opportunity to try some wine. Good wine. Excellent wine in fact. More about that in some coming posts.

To readers of my blog (and I met one more yesterday in Stockholm I did not know read it): I am back!