We arrived back home on Tuesday afternoon. Since Wednesday was Independence Day, we had a nice break between our trip and returning to work, allowing us to mess the house up properly with our suitcases and bills and whatnot.

Thursday, I arrived at work finding out that a big chunk of my responsibilities at work had been cut from the program. Most people would take this as bad news, but not me! It turns out that I had so much on my plate at the start of the summer that I had barely begun on the part that got cut. I was working on higher priority things (now finished), and with the remainder of the high priority things gone, I actually have a reasonable workload for the rest of the summer that will enable me to actually leave the office on occasion.

Friday was a different story. I had a constant stream of people dropping by my cube asking for stuff, sometimes four or five deep. My cube looks like a loading dock piled high with components needed evaluation, and my optimism about my workload for the summer faded just a little bit. The big problem with being a jack-of-all-trades is that you can’t claim ignorance about anything at all.