Last week wasn't fun, my producer was out on an extended vacation durring the 4th of July holliday. Everything was fine at first - but I was quickly reminded how much meta filtering he does for me.

A coworker raised an excelent question: "Why not take your vacation when HE takes his vacation?". Unfortunatly my producer used up most of is vacation so he won't be leaving anytime soon.

Bummer.

But what if I take a virtual vacation? (we all know by now that virtual==fake, right?)
I'll still come in to the office and work - but I'll set my IM to "Appear offline" and set up my mail client to send an out-of-office email to every one!

I'll get a vacation from the distractions! Sweet!