productivity!

i took half of this week off from work.

growing up, my family would pretty much always end up doing some damned project when everyone was around for some holiday dinner. to the point where it was a running joke in my family that "you can tell it's a holiday because the $MY_SURNAME's are out working." it was just one of the ways my dad was.

given that background, maybe it's not too surprising that much of my plans for my vacation involve doing stuff around the house. i mean, there's a couple of things i *needed* to do, but the rest is just me on a productivity roll.

the trick, however, is to not actually bite off more than i can chew, project-wise, for a short vacation. because then there's the risk of losing focus on a project or running out of time and then things linger along half-done and half-assed for days, weeks, months, sometimes years. (this is another habit i picked up from my dad.)

i view that lesson -- don't get too wound up in stuff and risk that lingering half-done-ness -- as a life triumph of learning curve.