Instant Millionaires!
It's two days before we (Logan & Alex for the uninitiated) head off on our holiday to Japan (via Taipei) and Bali (via Kuala Lumpur) and it's only now that the fact that we're actually leaving soon is hitting me. Up to this stage it's almost felt like all the talk about the holiday was in the 3rd person. 'They're going here. They're going there. They're going to do this. They're going to do that'. Like it was all some kind of strange out of body experience where you're watching a movie and the protagonists look like you, but surely they can't be you. Can they?
To be fair, I'm so busy with work at the moment that I really haven't had a chance to focus on the upcoming holiday. Plus I'll actually be working while I'm away. Clients have work that will still need to be attended to, same as always. But that's the good thing about running a webby company like mine, because all the work I do is in the cloud. And so long as I have a laptop and an internet connection, I can do the work just as easily from a hotel room in Tokyo as I can from a coffee shop in North Sydney.
Naturally I won't be slaving over the work while I'm away. But as with every holiday, there'll be quiet times where we're relaxing in a hotel room, and Alex has fallen asleep, and I get an hour or two to myself to faff around on the net. And I'm more than happy to spend that time fixing this and tweaking that on clients' websites. Because let's be honest here, it's not exactly digging ditches is it?
The thing that brought the holiday sharply into focus today, was that Alex and I headed up to Chatswood to get four different types of currency for our trip. Up until now all the spending was done via the web or the phone. And punching your AMEX into a travel site prior to a holiday is a very disconnected type of experience. Whereas getting a wedge out of your bank account and transferring it into foreign currencies is not.
Still, look on the upside, we are now apparently millionaires. Albeit in what looks like Monopoly money!
The other thing that made the holiday seem real today is that Alex channeled her inner OCD over dinner and made me a list of 'Things to Do v Things to Pack' before we leave. And OMG! No way I'm going to get through a fraction of what needs doing before I leave. Not unless I have more arms than Vishnu!
Take now for example. It's 10.40 pm on the night before we fly out, and I'm meant to be finishing off a client's website so we can launch it tomorrow before I leave. So what am I doing, slaving away knee deep in the CMS? Nope. I'm writing the first entry on the Japan & Bali Holiday 2014 blog, that's what.
Can the class spell, 'Procrastination'? ;)
To be fair, I'm so busy with work at the moment that I really haven't had a chance to focus on the upcoming holiday. Plus I'll actually be working while I'm away. Clients have work that will still need to be attended to, same as always. But that's the good thing about running a webby company like mine, because all the work I do is in the cloud. And so long as I have a laptop and an internet connection, I can do the work just as easily from a hotel room in Tokyo as I can from a coffee shop in North Sydney.
Naturally I won't be slaving over the work while I'm away. But as with every holiday, there'll be quiet times where we're relaxing in a hotel room, and Alex has fallen asleep, and I get an hour or two to myself to faff around on the net. And I'm more than happy to spend that time fixing this and tweaking that on clients' websites. Because let's be honest here, it's not exactly digging ditches is it?
The thing that brought the holiday sharply into focus today, was that Alex and I headed up to Chatswood to get four different types of currency for our trip. Up until now all the spending was done via the web or the phone. And punching your AMEX into a travel site prior to a holiday is a very disconnected type of experience. Whereas getting a wedge out of your bank account and transferring it into foreign currencies is not.
Still, look on the upside, we are now apparently millionaires. Albeit in what looks like Monopoly money!
The other thing that made the holiday seem real today is that Alex channeled her inner OCD over dinner and made me a list of 'Things to Do v Things to Pack' before we leave. And OMG! No way I'm going to get through a fraction of what needs doing before I leave. Not unless I have more arms than Vishnu!
Take now for example. It's 10.40 pm on the night before we fly out, and I'm meant to be finishing off a client's website so we can launch it tomorrow before I leave. So what am I doing, slaving away knee deep in the CMS? Nope. I'm writing the first entry on the Japan & Bali Holiday 2014 blog, that's what.
Can the class spell, 'Procrastination'? ;)
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