I sometimes think that I secretly relish returning to the office after being out for a while in meetings or on a vacation, just because the all-hands-on-deck flaming disaster area that greets me on my return reminds me of one of my favorite movies growing up, John Wayne's 
1968 oil well firefighting epic The Hellfighters (widely considered the second-best film released that year, surpassed only by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, at least in my circles by the time the two reached the Capri Drive-In in Marshall the next year). In it, Wayne's team (the movie is a fictionalized account of the career of Red Adair) has to figure out how to clear the burning wreckage around an oil well before blowing out the flames using packages of nitroglycerine (hopefully not being in the vicinty when the nitro explodes) while navigating treacherous romantic relationships with Katharine Ross and Vera Miles. I often have much the same feeling trying to process backed up emails, inboxes, filings, phone messages and so forth before something blows up in my face. No sign of Katharine Ross, alas, and Wikipedia informs me Ms. Miles isn't granting interviews these days.
In the course of clearing the wreckage on my virtual desktop this morning, I discovered that I failed to post on a recent patent verdict that came out while I was on vacation in July. In Freeny v. Murphy Oil Corporation, 2:13cv791, a Marshall jury in Judge Roy Payne's court found that all four asserted claims were infringed, and that none of the asserted claims were shown by clear and convincing evidence to be invalid either as anticipated or is obvious. The jury awarded $9,250,000 as damages. I do not know if that's the plaintiff's number, the defendant's if infringement was shown, or somewhere in between, as I was herding my boys in and out of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum on Lake Superior at the time (which I highly recommend if you want to freeze your tail off in July, which was in fact absolutely our priority).
Oh, hey, I just get the connection - Murphy Oil. Cool.