I’m back from an eight-day road trip to North Carolina. I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out what I was doing before I left. The best thing about vacations is that they reboot your brain. You realize that the sky hasn’t fallen because you never did A, B, and C before you left for your trip. And since the sky hasn’t fallen, then maybe you really don’t need to do A, B, and C after all.

The best thing about this vacation is that it’s still going on. Steve took off today and tomorrow, which means that I can get caught up with my own work. It’s really sad, but we generally use Steve’s vacation time for me to write my papers. He has taken the kids to the swim club, and I’m at the library writing. OK, I’m taking a break from the paper to write a blog post.

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