Why do problems never happen singularly? Just like the old adage about buses in the UK, you don’t see any for a long time, then three come along at once.

Well the last week has seen my three buses arrive in quick succession. Firstly I am snowed under with work right now, not a problem in itself, but definitely a problem when considered as part of the overall situation. Secondly, Nuth has been sick, meaning I have had to take care of Leon, no time for work, anyone who thinks you can take care of a baby and still get a full days work in is living on a different planet. Lastly, the Internet in the apartment building has been terrible lately, most of the time it is unusable. So between looking after Leon, and a dodgy Internet connection, I have managed to dig myself in to quite a hole with a huge backlog of work. This week I am going to need to put in something like 60 hours just to catch up! Oh well, fingers crossed I can clear my desk by the end of the week and take a couple of days off.

I was going through some of the old movies I took with my mobile phone and found this short clip I took of Leon when he was only a few hours old. This video was taken in the hospital in Surin, and I have to say, the service from this hospital was superb, ok it was a private hospital so you expect a decent level of service, but it was far from the most expensive private hospital.

I can’t believe how small he looks in that video, it makes him look like a giant now!

I have a lot of work on at the moment, this should be a good thing right? The problem is it’s exhausting me. When I consider this problem I have to admit it’s been the best part of a decade since I actually did any real work. Ok there have been short periods when I have had to work for a few days non-stop but the rest of the time I have spent sitting on my behind in meetings or talking garbage on the telephone.

This whole working to produce an identifiable product is really something pretty new to me, in the past deadlines have been this vague concept that never actually applied to me, or if they did I neatly sidestepped them in some way. Not now though, if I don’t produce I don’t get paid.

I am really suffering at the moment, it’s something I call mouse shoulder, I believe it’s real name is Repetitive Strain Injury or RSI. I’ve been getting these very bad pains in my shoulders and arms for a long time now, quite often I will also lose the feeling in my fingers or suffer from pins and needles. I know exactly what causes it, too many hours in front of a computer keyboard.

Sometimes going for a massage fixes it for a couple of days but I just do not have time to do that at the moment as I have far too much work I need to get finished. I think perhaps I am going to try and build myself a more ergonomic desk, sitting in the garden stretching across a bamboo table with no back support probably isn’t doing it any good at all.