Back to work, fool speed ahead

As you may have noticed, gentle reader, I’ve been absent from all things blogadelic lately. My contract of 22 months at VMware IT had ended as February had come to a close, and while I had intended to spend some vacation time on the trails admiring a bounty of Spring wildflowers, I quickly found myself mired in the insufferable angst of repairing my PC - angst one doesn’t particularly seek while on vacation.

After a week of that crapola, I had felt it necessary to simply sever the tether that bound me to nearly all things computer-related. While it wasn’t strictly a conscious decision, temporarily weaning myself off the technology was, in retrospect, a very good decision. Indeed, I’m all about balance in my life; I don’t wish to sacrifice my health - mental, emotional, or otherwise - to the bristly siren, the Pavlovian maw, of the PC.

I know it’s not always easy for us to do.

Yet I wasn’t a total slacker, mind you. With roughly the entire month of March ahead of me, I tackled a few projects that I had back-burnered for some time. Things pile up, you know? And so I responded to the reveille of Spring: clean the house, pull the weeds, read a book, see some friends, plant a garden, cook up a storm, clean the house some more. Heck, I even replaced a few electrical outlets and switches and repaired a niggly little plumbing issue under the kitchen sink. I got a little hiking and bike riding in and even took my mom out for an Easter hike through this year’s wonderful wildflower extravaganza. Plus, I enjoyed a couple of days of great wine tasting and conversation in Healdsburg, California, with fellow wine bloggers Sonadora and Oenophilus.

But now vacation is over, and I’m back - back to work and back to blogging, balance once again restored. Aaaahh…!

In an upcoming post, I shall share a little more about my March madness. No foolin’.

~winehiker

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