That is hilarious, sarameg! Autocorrect emojifying your post, not missing your swim, which is a drag.

Five hours is all I can do before my brain starts to rebel and shut down.

Agreed. I try to spread them out over the course of the work day, but yes.

I go down rabbitholes and come up 10 hrs later, but I feel both drunk and hungover and completely spent after. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad I had 3 meetings, 2 of which I had to be fullly on, but one where I just pet the cat and twittered, for today's 10.5 hrs. It allowed me a respite, even. My work isn't physical, and frankly, most rabbithole days don't even involve people. And if they do, half the time to brainmelt.

I think I got a 5-hour day today, between lunch, the mandatory all-hands, and my boss sending me home at 2:30. The cold I had when we started climbing the mountain is now a sinus infection, I fear.

Just slept for 2 hours, but I have to go out to deliver the cake I made last night...

Welcome home, Consuela! Hope you have a chance to recover.

I also go down rabbit holes but the work I do currently doesn't mesh well with that. And even said rabbit holes are productive, I kinda doubt they are really good for me.

I generally work at least a 14 hour day, but I do a lot of other stuff between work stuff. The nature of the work is about 360 days a year. In a normal day I am at the computer by 6:30 AM, check my servers and other tech stuff, read my morning email newsletters from the NYT and WaPo, deal with work stuff, prepare some meals, check out b.org and FB, respond to calls and emails, play some sudoku, do some database work, Words with Friends, alternating work and play until about 9-10 PM. So a long computer day, but I can't say I am working all that time. My doctors can and will text me at any hour of the day or night if they have issues because their hours are insane.

eta: best thing I did was program the wrist device to vibrate if I have sat for an hour so I will get up and do something physical. I should change that to 45 minutes!

I have a thing, I think it's a Chrome extension, that pops up to tell me to take a break every 20 minutes (at least look away from the screen) and get up every hour and the like, but I ignore it more than I should.

NASA conference call and OMG people can't figure out how to mute. British dude is working from home and has 2 kids who are fighting over mum's chair, someone is drinking an iced something, bag'o'chips, emphatic typing...jesus.

Huh. If there's a gov't shutdown lasting this weekend (technically, if it isn't done by midnight sunday) the rehearsal I'm working next week won't happen. Enough direct feds, their furlough would impact the exercise.

Well, then. I won't know until midnight Sunday whether I have to be at work at 7:30 Monday! (I get here around that time anyway, but now I can't be at all late because the shift briefing happens then.

Well, that's exciting.