Where did it go?

It didn't take long to leave my vacation behind me. Get home, spend two days working on the second deck, go to the office on Monday, things start a little slow, not much to do. Near noontime the work has picked up and since then I've needed every minute up to tonight there to deal with what amounts to at least twelve different projects on my time record and countless interruptions. Some minor as in fifteen or thirty minutes and some from three to six hours. And a lot of it with a twist to it that I don't usually come across very often. I've also been working on the the town's website and the church's newsletter a bit each evening and this evening I vacuumed and washed the PT. It was covered with dust and bug splotches from the drive up and back to the camp. Nice and shiny now.

Another sign from a vacation in the rearview mirror, the book I was reading (Pandora's Star) and the book I had ordered (Polity Agent). The latter finally arrived yesterday and I'm terribly eager to dive into it. The problem, I should finish the one I started. I didn't do nearly as much reading as I have in past vacations to the camp. I'm only a third of the way through and haven't read any of it since we left to come home. I am anxious to continue as a particularly exciting part of the story is taking place where I left off and the main character is about to do something that may salvage a bad situation that is taking place. Life though is pulling me in other directions with some pretty set priorities so I'm waiting until the time to read is plentiful before picking up where I left off. I do not want to nickel and dime my way through this part of the story. As for the shipment of my originally intended vacation book I look at it this way - if it hadn't been delayed then I would have never stopped at the used book store and found the book I am now reading, as I'm getting the feel for the characters and the story and I am quite pleased with it.

On another note, I'm still about 3 issues behind on my Asimov's magazines. I'm on the last story (which is the fifth and last installment of a series) in the February 2008 edition. I didn't renew my subscription, I may sometime after I read the last one I have but I do have several books of short stories so it remains to seen what I'll do - I just think that I'll be wondering what I'm missing in the Asimov's that I miss.