This has been a scheduled outage for Writing Metrics. Fred and I were in Las Vegas from the 9th through the 12th, feeding the penny slots, eating extremely well (I highly recommend B&B Ristorante), sleeping quite a bit and generally recovering from the past several months of mostly unremitting work. As often happens with me and vacations, I was up until 4:00 a.m. the night before we left, getting answers to discovery drafted and accomplishing various other legal chores.

I came home to 250+ emails on my personal email account, and I've been too frightened to check the firm's website yet, but that's coming soon.

I got surprisingly little reading done, to my dismay; too tired to read is really just plain too tired. I didn't finish a single novel.

So it's back to the new normal, with an attempt to schedule my writing and exercise into and around my work, instead of letting the work consume me. That's much easier said than done, so please wish me luck.