TomD
Yeah that sounds like me. I am usually not in a rush. But technically with stuff like Titebond you can work on it the same day. I would prefer to wait and let the moisture dissipate. I sometimes use epoxy, because I have a process were the block can be made pretty much inert to moisture and as stable as a metal plane.

Mortising is faster if that is what you want. there is a video of Inamoto and it seems to take him about ten minutes to get the blade in from a dead start.