Holidays suck.

Hello everyone,

It has been a very long and unfortunately not very successful holiday.

Instead of resting and gaining strength to continue working I have had a lot of issues to deal with over the last few weeks.

It all started at the beginning of July with flooding in the basement of my house. We moved house a few months ago and haven't had time to unpack all the cardboard boxes and cartons yet, as we are finishing the renovation of the upstairs. Everything we kept in the basement was destroyed - documents, books, clothes, building materials and many other things including lots of memorabilia. It took me many days to get everything out and dry, clean the basement, fight with the damaged cooker and restore electricity throughout the house. My son went to stay with my parents during this time because my wife and I didn't have time to take care of him. On the third day, my mother called and informed me that my dear son had probably broken several toes on his right foot. Unfortunately, this turned out to be true and after a few hours of surgery and the insertion of wires into the toes to make the bones knit together properly, he was grounded for six weeks with a plaster cast on his leg. We had to cancel his trip to camp and our holiday together in Croatia. Fortunately, the toes were healing nicely and after 4 weeks the cast was removed and only the orthosis was left on, so at the beginning of August we went to the mountains for a week to relax a bit.  The trip was wonderful and we returned full of enthusiasm for work. Unfortunately, a few days after our return, my mother called to say that my grandmother had had a stroke and was lying in hospital in a coma. The prognosis was hopeless, so my mother wanted to go to her. We spent nearly two weeks there. Grandma died last Wednesday, the funeral was on Saturday. I came home on Monday mentally and physically exhausted. 

All of this has left me more tired than I was before the holiday, I don't have a single day off work to use and I'm about three weeks behind with my work schedule for the update. I don't know if I'll be able to finish everything in September, but I'll do my best.

I hope you at least had a better holiday and got some rest.

My best wishes to you all.