I've just returned to work after a two-week break. This means that most of today will be spent clearing up the rather large email backlog that has accumulated in my absence. It's annoying that this happens: my job is by no means always boring, but the first day or two after coming back from a holiday is always boring, which means that the end of the holiday is always a bad moment. If only it weren't for the backlog, the end of a break would at least sometimes not be so bad.

My vague plan for the holiday was to spend the first week doing as little as possible, after which I expected to get restless and start doing something useful and programmingy. This didn't exactly work, because the first week was entirely taken up by annoying domestic chores and errands (MOT season, faffing with prescriptions, being repeatedly on hold to British Gas, that sort of thing), and after I'd capped it by spending Saturday driving down to Reading and back to visit an old friend, I found I was still not remotely rested and needed another week of doing nothing at all to recover. On the second Saturday I did actually rediscover my enthusiasm for programming, but by then it was a bit late to do anything major with it. Still, I did my best anyway: my puzzle collection now contains an implementation of the game most commonly known as ‘Su Doku’, although it's somewhat unfinished.

Anyway; back to the inbox. Wish me patience.