{"id":291,"date":"2006-01-03T03:09:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T11:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=50"},"modified":"2006-01-03T03:09:22","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T11:09:22","slug":"getting-back-in-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Getting back in groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my best attempts, I don't stop using computers over a break like the recent Christmas\/New Year. In fact, this holiday I've only had a few days off from the grind. <\/p>\n<p>But for some reason, the start of the new year and a return, even from a small break, seems to be a major issue. I know I'm not the only one who has such problems. <\/p>\n<p>So how do you get back in the flow? <\/p>\n<p>Here's what I do: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start with the small jobs - catch up on the logs, emailed reports and other things that I can do over a small cofffee.<\/li>\n<li>Do some of the smaller, easier tasks. Change the backup tapes, create the new users.<\/li>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1497\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1497\" dc:title=\"Getting back in groove\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1497\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=bbhbMp\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=bbhbMp\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=50\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my best attempts, I don&#8217;t stop using computers over a break like the recent Christmas\/New Year. In fact, this holiday I&#8217;ve only had a few days off from the grind. <\/p>\n<p>But for some reason, the start of the new year and a return, even from a small break, seems to be a major issue. I know I&#8217;m not the only one who has such problems. <\/p>\n<p>So how do you get back in the flow? <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I do: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start with the small jobs &#8211; catch up on the logs, emailed reports and other things that I can do over a small cofffee.<\/li>\n<li>Do some of the smaller, easier tasks. Change the backup tapes, create the new users.<\/li>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1497\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1497\" dc:title=\"Getting back in groove\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1497\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=bbhbMp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=bbhbMp\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=50\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}