Holidays approach and the usual outbreak of trying to clear the to do list faster than others add to it.

And I have been mega busy.

Three major complicated assignments (which will earn £££) conflicting with tidying loose ends on the pro bono one which definitely won’t.

So I need one of the usual run-ins with software like I need a hole in the head (or additional to the ones I already have).

And a short week – three bank holidays in five or six weeks (four if you count Good Friday and Easter Monday as separate ones).

Don’t get me wrong – I’m NOT one of those self-employed people who resent the enforced time off.

Quite the contrary – I do too many 10-12 hour days and the odd enforced break will possibly stop me working myself to death.

Although that might not be the optimal course of action as far as Lorraine is concerned – I’d ask her whether hubby or the insurance payout is more important, but I suspect I might not want to know the answer… Musing face emoji.

But

There’s now not another one until late-August in the UK and then it’s not until Christmas.

When we get another one, two or three depending on how you count them.

So they’re a bit “clumpy” shall we say?

Bit like the proverbial London buses – none for ages then three in close succession.

I do know mathematically how and why that happens but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t apply to bank holidays…

Sorry, got sidetracked there

Me and software.

I’m convinced an unholy alliance of software engineers and my computer decide the most inconvenient times to do a software update – and then do it.

It’s got to work that way, hasn’t it?

The number of times you think to yourself “I’ve got a bit of spare time away from the computer” and nothing happens.

Compared with “why the fork has it decided to do that NOW???”

So I’ve had a few long and mentally stimulating days (you know – the sort no one gives a toss about client-wise but your brain WON’T let you take any shortcuts over) so I just want to plod first thing.

Few emails, respond to this and that, etc. and break myself in gently.

Know the sort?

So, of course

While I’m away from the desk iTunes and iCloud decide they need to do a major update. I come back from whatever I was doing to to find it all chuntering away.

Didn’t ask me obviously.

Now Apple updates come in two types – the ones that don’t need a restart and those that do.

Now I’ve tried to continue working while updates download, etc. but all this normally does is slow your work AND slow the update.

So you learn to leave well (!) alone and let it get on with it. Less disruption in the long run.

But while it takes not too long to download the several hundred MB of data it takes forever (relatively speaking) to do the installation.

So you start to nod off, maybe go read a chapter of your latest book on the Kindle app, make a cup of coffee. You know the routine.

But of course it’s a restart one isn’t it? You KNEW it all along the longer it took to do the damned install.

And you don’t want to have to remember to do the restart later as you’ll invariably remember when you’re in the midst of your personal stuff.

Always happens that way with me anyway. Small girl shrugging hands (corrected misspelling there, almost took panda instead – shrugging panda emoji would be super cooooool) emoji.

That last sentence is WRONG in SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many ways but was really fun to write!

And there you are – an hour later and no feeling of having rested in any way…

And by the time you’ve finished the deliberation of which emails need responding to it’s nearly midday and you’ve lost the will to live.

Sigh

Now with the holidays approach -ing and then Louisa being away this might be the last offering until the middle of June.

Where are we going? Scotland, staying in Glasgow rather than Edinburgh for a change.

May be two of us, may be three. Depends if Die Tochter gets a better offer.

Panda, not shrugging
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