Back to work, jiggity-jig

Work resumes tomorrow. I didn't realize when I took my vacation the week before last that it was right before two four-day weeks, so it kind of feels like I haven't been at work at all. It's been nice but also part of me is stressing out because fewer days at work means getting less done.

I declared tomorrow a "work from home" day because I actually need to take a few hours of personal time to get some government paperwork sorted out, and of course government offices are only open during the hours I'm actually working these days. One of the advantages of shift work is getting multiple days off during the week, so now I have to contend with "normal people" problems since I'm no longer working shifts.

I'm going to bed in the next few minutes, because I've set my alarm for quite early tomorrow. I tried getting up at 6:00 this morning in order to get Peggy out to the field by 7:00 for a run, but I ended up leaving closer to 6:50 than 6:30, and it takes 30-35 minutes to drive out there. So now I know that I need to either get up earlier or move a lot faster in the mornings, and I have a better chance of getting up early than I do of moving faster, so here we are.

I also want to start running again. Back in 2016 I actually did a Couch to 5k program, and while I can't claim to have ever actually run 5k, by the end I was running for a full 30 minute stretch, and I'd like to get back to that. So the plan is to do the Week 1, Day 1 run tomorrow after work. I shall come back with a progress report!