{"id":82133,"date":"2012-12-10T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstaging.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/?p=73441"},"modified":"2018-12-12T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:16:10","slug":"a-wee-bit-exhausted-time-to-reenergize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/a-wee-bit-exhausted-time-to-reenergize\/","title":{"rendered":"A wee bit exhausted\u2026 time to reenergize"},"content":{"rendered":"

I admit it. I am tired and I have not blogged nearly enough. This has been a crazy year, with the book I finished writing<\/a>, the pre-cons I have done (teaching is NOT my primary profession so I do a lot more prep than some others probably do), lots of training on Data Warehousing topics (from Ralph Kimball, Bob Becker, and Stacia Misner, to name three of the great teachers I have had), SQL Rally, SQL PASS, SQL Saturdays and I have gotten a lot more regular with my simple-talk blog<\/a> as well\u2026 Add to this the fact that my daughter added a new grandchild to the family, and my mother has started to get so weak she is starting to fall down quite often (I am writing this blog entry from a spare bedroom at my mother-in-law\u2019s house while my mom is in rehab!) and I am getting exhausted.<\/p>\n

Am I whining? Probably, but it is my blog! No, seriously I figure that occasionally you have to poke your head out from under the covers and write something and this is my something until after the New Year (other than posting a few already written and edited simple-talk blogs). I am on vacation from work for 2.5 weeks, and I don\u2019t plan to do much with this laptop of mine for those two weeks unless the spirit hits me with an idea for a blog that I just have to write, but usually most of my blogs that have any technical or artistic merit take weeks to complete.  On the second of January, I hope to be back at it, analyzing my resolutions from last year<\/a>, and making good on a few of them, particularly \u201cBlog about my other (computer) love occasionally\u201d and review some of the gadgets I have acquired as they pertain to doing my job as a writer\/data architect. (Hint: My mother-in-law does not have Internet access, so some of the devices I have here are instrumental in my ability to work untethered for weeks on end.)<\/p>\n

So until next year, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year!  I hope your holidays are restful and fun.  I know part of mine will be because I intend to replicate this picture at least one or two more times next week, hopefully with a Turkey Leg in the hand that isn\u2019t holding the camera taking the picture (all with my Windows Phone set on Battery Saver Mode, which delightfully turns off all syncing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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