I think I have convinced folks of my insanity. I got back from vacation yesterday, and actually came into the office today (Friday).
For some reason folks think I should have taken today off too. However, I think coming in today was a smart move. After all, when you’re gone for longer than a day or two, you run into a problem with accumulating a lot of email. It took the better part of the day just to clean up the nuisance mails, or items that were resolved while I was out, and to get back up to speed on how other outstanding items developed while I was offline. And all this on Friday, when the local practice is to wind down and slow up a little bit, ahead of the weekend.
So, at least now I’m ready to get back into the swing of things on Monday, without having to worry about catching up on email and dealing with the inevitable Monday morning fire-drills.