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title: "Short and sweet - I'm back"
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published: "2003-08-07T14:55:00"
updated: "2003-08-07T14:55:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Got back from Crete, Greece a couple of hours ago It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g My skin is peeling and itchy from sun burn As folks were saying, it was a much needed time away from the computer It's a real downer coming back :(…"
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# Short and sweet - I'm back

By Roy Osherove August 7, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 7, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

- Got back from Crete, Greece a couple of hours ago
- It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g
- My skin is peeling and itchy from sun burn
- As folks were saying, it was a much needed time away from the computer
- It's a real downer coming back :(
- But! I got me a new keyboard and mouse (for my coming birthday)
- I have about 300 blog posts to read
- I have 50 emails to answer
- Life is back to normal

Oh, and I start [my new job](http://www.identify.com/) on sunday. I'm totally excited :)

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Aug 10, 2003

    ### [OurNotepad](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/10/ournotepad.html)

- Aug 8, 2003

    ### [Can I please have my keyboard and mouse talking to my Win2k3 server?](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/8/can-i-please-have-my-keyboard-and-mouse-talking-to-my-win2k3.html)

- Jul 30, 2003

    ### [Count anything in your open Word document](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/30/count-anything-in-your-open-word-document.html)

- Jul 30, 2003

    ### [Out on vacation](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/30/out-on-vacation.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/