If you’ve taken my advice (See vacation strategy) you should be enjoying a nice short week at work without any annoying people getting in your way.

Back in the day when I had a real office job this was my favorite week. I’d plow through all the stuff I hadn’t managed to get to for weeks, clean out my inbox and send those half-written emails. I remember many enjoyable days with few or no meetings, quiet hallways, followed by a week or two of feeling ahead of the curve in the new year.

If you’re looking for tips on other ways to use a quiet week, check these out:

• Getting things done with delete. You don’t have to manage what you can get rid of.
• Lifehacker’s top 20 of top tens. All kinds of good piles of productivity advice.
• Merlin Mann’s Inbox zero video. Based on his series of Inbox zero blog posts, this short video, filmed at google, offers good advice on how to take control of your email.
• (Fun) Yes, an actual fun thing. Good experience games is a great list of flash / web games that don’t suck. Updated often by GEL conference organizer and Bit Literacy author, Mark Hurst.