---
title: "Back, Relaxed and Recharged"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/1/4/back-relaxed-and-recharged.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/1/4/back-relaxed-and-recharged.html"
published: "2006-01-04T22:47:00"
updated: "2006-01-04T22:47:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Wow! It's been an amazing two weeks at Thailand. The only way to sum up the overall feeling would be this picture of Tal sitting on the beach at the Phi Phi Islands:"
usage: "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/"
---

# Back, Relaxed and Recharged

By Roy Osherove January 4, 2006 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 4, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

Wow!

It's been an **amazing** two weeks at Thailand. The only way to sum up the overall feeling would be this picture of Tal sitting on the beach at the Phi Phi Islands:

## More in Off Topic

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

- Jan 15, 2006

    ### [HanselMinutia](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/1/15/hanselminutia.html)

- Jan 7, 2006

    ### [VB.NET 2.0 Vs. C# 2.0: Nice event photo](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/1/7/vbnet-20-vs-c-20-nice-event-photo.html)

- Dec 19, 2005

    ### [Going to Thailand for a couple of weeks](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/19/going-to-thailand-for-a-couple-of-weeks.html)

- Dec 10, 2005

    ### [Media Center Fix: Multiple Concurrent Logins to Windows](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/10/media-center-fix-multiple-concurrent-logins-to-windows.html)


---

## 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).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### 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/