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#112: Enjoy The Silence

Remember this posting ? Of course you do. But I'll allow you to sneak away and re-read it before you go any further. Go on, I'll just have a quiet glass of milk and tap my foot until you return. Back already? Good. How was your New Years Eve? My, you are a fast little reader aren't you? So what's new in the world then? Hey, to quote Rob Morrison, I'm glad you asked. Another conversation with a compatriot in the Federal ranks alerted me to the full extent of the Formerly Known As Focus Days, now delightfully referred to as an internal acronym. If you read the previous entry then you'd be aware of what the Formerly Known As Focus Days involves - no email, no phone calls, no outside stimuli at all. As if that wasn't bad enough...and you knew it, it had to get worse. Today's little gem included the following: the idea of the Formerly Known As Focus Days is so that they can have a a day free of distractions such as, meetings, training, email, internal m