I went in to work on Thursday. I left kinda early so I could beat the rush hour traffic home. While I was in the office I spent most of my time catching up with people I hadn’t seen for many weeks now. Getting some face time, you know how that goes.

When I got home, I got to work. I set down with my laptop and I opened up a new email. I spent the next 7 hours writing one very long winded email to the CEO of the company. What I had to say in my email may be right or wrong, but it made a difference. I have an appt. for 3:30 Tuesday afternoon to discuss the issues I raised with Matthew (CEO of Red Hat). After that I spent a couple hours winding down and then went to bed.

Friday, Jessica had a shoot at the house. So, I had to get up and get dressed before the photographer arrived. Once I had my first latte, I set my laptop in my lap and started to work (about 10:30am). There was already a response to my email from Matthew. I set in one spot and wrote a counter response for the next 3 or 4 hours. Then I had an email from HR about my participation in the BNW project. I spent the next 3 or 4 hours writing two more emails to the HR person. In the middle of all this I got a call from my manager that there is a last minute issue with one of our kernels. I took about a 30 minute break to settle that problem. I had one other issue come up that took about another 30 minutes of my time. I had planned on going in to the office Friday. I never made it. I didn’t actually get around to eating my breakfast until about 7pm that night.

I have never been so drained from just doing email in all my life. I’m still wiped out today. Wonder what I should put on my status report that goes to the entire engineering department to account for my time on those two days?