It's August .... Again

I haven't posted the last couple weeks cause it's August. I'm sure their are groups out their that have certain months that are tougher than others for us this month has always been August. Whether this is because most of us are on vacation or clients are on vacation or the stars have lined up in a certain pattern it always seems that the tough scenerios of running a business always come to a head here. So I'm always extra busy with putting fires out or getting projects back on track or dealing with client issues. Some years it's been business was down or clients were not getting back on revisions or change requests. This year is no different except for the fact that I'm in my new house in St. Paul and located in the midwest and I'm running another business besides my apps dev company. I always try to take the third week off because I have three kids and it's the end of the summer and we like getting crazy together but as with any business owner "Can you ever really turn off the business side?" I sleep, dream, eat and breath my businesses 24/7 and 365 days a year. I don't consider my self a workaholic although my family may disagree but I work all the time. Most people envy me cause I work from home but if they only knew how I can't separate the two I don't think they would be as envious. I've tried to back away for instance I gave up my blackberry last year and switch to pull email so I'm not always checking my phone everytime it vibrates (the phantom vibrate was the first sign I needed to stop). I now try to check email every hour except for when I'm at my desk. I try to adhere to a routine of what I do every day with taking time in the afternoon but this is often interupted because of conference calls or pressing needs. But time management is key to my sanity. Often times I'll let friends take me out for a movie or round of golf but even then I'm feeling guilty cause I should be in front of my computer solving technical issues or planning our next month or handling some sort of request from someone and of course if I geta call forwarded to me I take it and then get antsy about getting back to the office which makes me a bad friends cause I probaly act like I don't want to be there. I think just cause I don't work a traditional 8 hour days dosen't mean I don't work a non traditional 12 hour one. I've been lying to myself but I wonder how many other business owners do the same thing? I try to establish boundaries but I still work on the weekends just ask my wife. She's implemented a new rule that I can't take my cell phone with me when we go to dinner on the weekends. She says that if someone needs to call they can call hers. I agree but man that's a tough couple hours worrying that maybe something is happening. Ultimately I know it boils down to having good staff and trusting them and we do have excellent staff which I fully accredit to our success. But I wonder am I the only business owner who experiences this?