10 Days

During the month of July 2008 I spent just 10 days in the office. A quick glance at the calendar informs us that I was out of the office 54% of the month. This is impressive considering that I typically loose vacation days at the end of the year. It's also a bite awkward given the number of projects on my plate and the deadline for many of these was the first day of August.

While I'd like to say that all these days out were vacation days, one week was actually business related as I attended a conference. None the less, each of the two weeks I was in the office was filled with both catch up work as well as extra work preparing for the weeks that I was out of the office. My recommendation is that if at all possible try to avoid being gone more days than you are in.