Must focus..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I know what I liked most about having the office across the hall from me empty. When you’re focusing on details, say in trying to run accounting reports which are very detail intensive, and the person across the hall is having a meeting in their office, it’s very hard to tune them out. I’ll be shutting the door and turning on some music now. 🙂

Still have a lot of work to get through this week, before I can even begin to look forward to our trip to Baltimore this weekend. It’ll be nice to spend three days just being with Angela and exploring a new place. Then I’ll come back to more heavy workload, with new employees starting, more of the job search, and I’ll probably be starting work on a side-job building an Access database for one of Jim’s clients as soon as we get back.

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I really am looking forward to the break! OK, back to reports for me!

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