How to not be verbose, in one easy lesson
Spend 10 days on vacation, then spend 12 days (including the fourth of July weekend) trying to fix the thrice-damned memory manager that the R*dh*t 8.0 Linux distribution uses. After 16 hours of tweaking, running tests, being exposed to extreme programming, and other worktime indignaties, it's hard to find enough enthusiasm to do anything more exhausting that try to figure out what I'm going to do once I get enough enthusiasm to do anything.
Hopefully I'll correct this situation today; I'm going to try and build a computer desk for Julie, so we're going to look at lumber today and maybe I'll have enough time to start planning it tomorrow.