For a first day back at work, this was a lot like a first day back at work. It was also like those three intense days I put in last week to get ready for my mini-vacation. But I have to admit it was worth it then, and it’s worth it now. I can put up with these intense days much more easily after a long weekend at the lake with family and friends.

What bugged me is that I had to track down the work I needed to do. It was double payroll day, and I had to find the responsible employees in each company and ask them to send me the time cards. It was billing day for the kennel, and I had to ask our manager for the information I needed.

I finally learned that the Boss had been telling everyone I wouldn’t be back until Wednesday. If I’d known that, I’d have taken the extra day. I finally located the Boss himself so that I could ask him a few pertinent questions (and maybe one or two impertinent ones). I hate stirring things up like that, because once he gets going it’s hard to stop him.

He called me back and told me to pay a particular supplier (to the tune of thirteen thousand dollars that I could have used to pay other bills). Then he called and told me not to pay the invoice, because the order was wrong. Then he called and told me to pay it, because he had messed up the order, not the supplier. I’m pretty sure that’s where we left it. It had better be, anyway.

This will be a good week to put into practice the good work ethic I discovered (under duress) last week. That’s probably the only way I’m going to get through it, so I might as well continue the momentum. It’s a little like running (from what I remember, back in the day). It’s hard to get started, but once you get going it’s hard to stop.