First Week of 2016
The first full week of 2016 has definitely gone much better than the last week of 2015. Between not sleeping well on the guest bed in 
the_sheryl's parents' Florida condo, getting home late due to a 2-hour flight delay, and two nights I had trouble sleeping fretting about things I needed to get done at both work and home before the ball dropped in Times Square, I was pretty fried by the time New Year's Eve rolled around. So I had a largely unproductive 3-1/2 day weekend in terms of knocking off any of the around-the-house projects I have, with the exception of cleaning the bathroom and straightening up Sam's room on Sunday. Other than our NYE dinner and Nookery stop, most of the rest of the weekend was spent lazing around the house and watching stuff on the DVR, although we did make it to one round of this month's FSGW Open Sing.
This week has been a smoother ride. I succeeded in my two major tasks for the work week (preparing for $EMPLOYER's upcoming board meeting and readying a couple of code proposals for submission) without too much scrambling or stress involved and made some progress on a few tasks at home. So if I spend most of this weekend knocking more stuff off the DVR, that's fine.
By now all my friends who are down in Atlanta have probably realized that we have in fact skipped GAFilk this year. Even though Sam appears to travel well (at least so far), flying with a little one is always an adventure; getting strollers and formula through security, holding a wriggling baby on your lap for two hours, trading said baby back and forth with Sheryl while trying to eat dinner on a tiny tray table in a cramped airplane seat. Plus, adoption is an expensive business, and even though we're financially OK saving the cost of one con isn't such a bad thing. So we'll miss our friends and Play It With Moxie and all, but hopefully we'll see lots of folks at Boskone next month.
the_sheryl's parents' Florida condo, getting home late due to a 2-hour flight delay, and two nights I had trouble sleeping fretting about things I needed to get done at both work and home before the ball dropped in Times Square, I was pretty fried by the time New Year's Eve rolled around. So I had a largely unproductive 3-1/2 day weekend in terms of knocking off any of the around-the-house projects I have, with the exception of cleaning the bathroom and straightening up Sam's room on Sunday. Other than our NYE dinner and Nookery stop, most of the rest of the weekend was spent lazing around the house and watching stuff on the DVR, although we did make it to one round of this month's FSGW Open Sing.This week has been a smoother ride. I succeeded in my two major tasks for the work week (preparing for $EMPLOYER's upcoming board meeting and readying a couple of code proposals for submission) without too much scrambling or stress involved and made some progress on a few tasks at home. So if I spend most of this weekend knocking more stuff off the DVR, that's fine.
By now all my friends who are down in Atlanta have probably realized that we have in fact skipped GAFilk this year. Even though Sam appears to travel well (at least so far), flying with a little one is always an adventure; getting strollers and formula through security, holding a wriggling baby on your lap for two hours, trading said baby back and forth with Sheryl while trying to eat dinner on a tiny tray table in a cramped airplane seat. Plus, adoption is an expensive business, and even though we're financially OK saving the cost of one con isn't such a bad thing. So we'll miss our friends and Play It With Moxie and all, but hopefully we'll see lots of folks at Boskone next month.
