1. I do that once in a while. There is only so much thinking you can do in a day or a week that you need some mindless activity

2. Today morning, fresh in the new year after a break -- I took a day off on the 2nd, and I last worked on December 19th, I am not able to get into the zone, and luckily a training email popped up -- spent an hour doing that. Normally my manager would have had to remind me.