I took a brief vacation over the last two weeks, taking days here and there to fit around a range of family events and numerous trips to the outside world. I thought, rather foolishly, that by taking individual days that I'd be able to keep on top of the email, requests and other jobs that take a little time each day, but don't make up the bulk of my typical daily workload.

Unfortunately it's taken me the best part of a week afterwards to go through all the non-urgent emails I hadn't covered and make a new list of things that need to be done. At one point, there were so many, topics I realized that I'd have to build a list of things to do in order to build the final todo list.