Since it's Easter weekend (actually, Easter as I type this) we're up at my grandma's and thus, I have some time to draft up some blog posts. 

Work has, of course, been the biggest time sink lately.  I've worked a couple of weekends straight -- both after having work 12+ hours days.  This has been a change from what it was for a while with my projects.  However, lately a number of things have gotten much more critical so I've had to work more. 

We've also had a lot of stuff going on at home.  This has moved to keep me up past midnight more than a couple of times lately.  When you get up at 6:15am, spend an hour and half commuting (the rain hasn't helped any, either), another 12 or so hours working, and the proceed to be up late, you start getting a bit exhausted.  It makes you want to have a vacation.

Well, as it turns out, we'll be heading off to Hawai'i in just about a week exactly.  I haven't been there yet, so that should be fun.  We'll be doing a lot of snorkling, of course.  I'm looking forward to it, but with some apprehension.  I get motion sickness very easily.  In fact, I got sick on most of our diving trips.  We're actually using the snorkling as a test run for our planning for Africa.  If I do alright, we may do more snorkling while we're over there.

The timing couldn't be better, though, since I could really use a vacation.  Of course, this year is heavy on the vacations.  I also have some time off for our wedding and will be taking about a month of to go to African at the end of the summer.

Posted by Shane on April 16, 2006 9:05 AM | Permalink