I found today's immensely satisfying to work on, though I have no idea whether anyone else in the whole world will even get a ghost of a smile out of it. It actually required research, and a lot of pixel-fiddling in Painter, but the time just flew by.
The buffer that I built up to start with is completely gone, and I'm having to do them day-by-day right now. I'm counting on using the long weekend to build it back up. Just before my vacation I was 5 days ahead, but I only managed to do one during that time, so by the day after I got back I was dry. Ideally I'd like to be working two weeks ahead, so occassional disruptions will be a non-issue.