I am currently sitting in the waiting area of the Luton Airport waiting to bord a flight to Hamburg, Germany and I just noticed that I did not do a Lifestream post during the past two weeks.
So what has happened over the past two weeks?
In short: A lot as always.
Here is the extended version sorted by current activities (business and private):
- Two weeks ago one of my major projects really kicked of in terms of workload and time commitment. This project has really taken a lot of my time over the past weeks. Especially after one of the project managers fell ill 2 weeks ago and I had to jump in to fill the gap.
- I also had to travel to Germany last Sunday for that project. I choose to travel by car as I needed to have some repairs done on my old faithful Ford Focus. Traveling by car meant that a both ways 6 hour journey by plane then took me 2 full days traveling time (numerous traffic jams included).
- The website development has also not been totally on time the past 2 weeks. This is mainly due to some personal changes in the programmers team and issues with the Content Management System (CMS). I hope this is sorted out this week.
- We also had several friends visiting us over the last couple of weeks. It is was really great to finally have time to catch up on old and new stories. This week a special old friend made the journey to London for an extended weekend and we really enjoyed the last few days. Friends are really important and life can be very lonely without good friends.
All in all have the past two weeks been very interesting and eventful. But my experience of the past few years has been that these weeks in November and early December are especially busy weeks. Everyone seems to either start or finish a project, do end of the year client visits, etc. People seem to work harder then they usually do during other parts of the year. I assume this is similar to the typical “Oh my God is it already Friday work mentality” in business. On a Friday I always feel that a lot of people need to sort out their unfinished tasks of the week. I get a lot more calls and emails from people on the Friday then any other time during the week.
Maybe this is just me but I seem to see a correlation.
I am in Hamburg all of this week but I am already looking forward to the flight back on Friday evening. Don’t get me wrong I love my work but family is family. And life without your family and some good friends is like food without spices………Just boring and colorless.
On that note, have a good week everyone and lets get „November Busy“!
Kind Regards,
Fabian