Oh yes, the last day of work before vacation. By vacation, I mean another week off to work on the bathroom remodel at home. Today is filled with meetings everyone wants to get in before I go, telling everyone about the things they need to do while I am gone and trying to remember to set up my out of office and delegates for the different things I have approvals for. Seems everyone has something they need to tell me or ask before I go. It is hard to concentrate on work when I am also thinking of all the supplies I need to pick up and what I need to do first once I am home. While it won’t be a fun time off it will be relaxing in the fact that it is doing something other than what I do every day. I plan on only looking at email once or twice a day which means when I get back I will have a few hundred emails to go through. Email, the posts it notes of the modern age, most of them are just distractions from real work, the others are annoyances which slow you down in trying to get things done. Why did we ever think these were a good idea? I much prefer the face to face meeting, that way I can read the message in what is being delivered and I can then respond in a more appropriate way. instead of firing off another email to be misread by someone else.