To me they involve:
- Catching up on 2.5 days of emails from automated jobs and other various bits. So usually a few hundred. A lot of those I can 2-3 per second, so they don’t take that long, as long as none of them look unusual. The ones from actual humans take up much more time.
- Wading through a backlog of newsfeeds, typically also a few hundred, although half of those can easily be ignored/discarded, thankfully.
- Finding the kitchen counter, often.
- Gathering, sorting and otherwise having some fun with laundry. We had a sick kid yesterday, so extra fun this morning.
- A bit more coffee (or at least caffeine) than usual.
- Trying to remember and summarise what I did last week, for work. Usually it has been blurred by the weekend.
And you?
Staring blankly at my computer screen while teens and little kids ask me questions that I have to blink in order to understand. Drinking coffee. Doing a similar email thing, though not quite so many from bots. Scanning through a bunch of bookmarks to check what has been updated. Cleaning off my desk… Photocopying whatever is to be the focus of the morning’s attention…