88 miles per hour

With my buddy being on leave, it's back to just me on our "team" at work. It's kind of a support role, it's kind of a tools role, with some R&D and library and common components too. Jack of all trades and all that. My problem is that for some tasks I require a certain amount of thought, of focus. I can't context shift from one task to another to get things done. I need time to do it. You might even say I need to get up to speed on each issue before working my magic.

88 mph, time, speed, magic. Yes, I'm making a weak reference to a modified DeLorean. Until they reached that speed, the machine didn't do what they tasked it with. It just wasted gas.

That's the way that I feel about work a lot of the time now. I don't have enough time to get up to speed on whatever I'm trying to work on before being interrupted and losing track. Many days I swear I can count between 15 and 90 seconds between one person leaving my cube until the next one shows up. That leaves me getting very little of my stuff done and a whole lot of frustration. Now, if I had a uniform ability to focus during my entire time at work that wouldn't matter, but I don't work this way. I have peak focus times. Prime time. And that's when I seem to get the most visitors.

I used to work around this by wandering in at 10 and leaving between 6 and 8 pm. I would say that I got all my work done after 4. Yes, even on the days I left at 6, I'd have a solid 2 hours of work. Now-a-days, I don't think that I even get that.

What makes this better? Going home to my girls. Work washes out of my mind, as it should.

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