Every time I notice that I’ve been behaving in a very silly way, I smile broadly, laugh out loud and say “Ha ha! Gotcha!” or something to that effect.
If I did this I’d be shouting “Gotcha!” all the live long day.
Let me tell you about this morning. I mostly work from home, but showing up at the office is very useful. So much stuff works better face to face. It saves a lot of faff on IRC. And the connection is faster.
I got up in good time, had a proper breakfast, very nice cup of tea thank you, got myself ready, got on a curiously uncrowded tube train with no copies of Metro (that’s your foreboding, I shall point out), got to work, and … the large iron gates were chained shut.
Because today is the New Year bank holiday.
If I’d procrastinated, of course, I’d have been in bed till eleven like I’d much have preferred to be.
This was a pretty much mathematically perfect example of doing exactly the right things to get something done, except for the fact of doing it at all.
Edit: And today I showed up when people were actually here. My co-workers find me having shown up yesterday hilarious. The perfect employee: dedicated and stupid. The Book of the SubGenius does say that when you foul up, you should crow about it and call great attention to it and you will be thought of as a creative genius.
If I did this I’d be shouting “Gotcha!” all the live long day.
Let me tell you about this morning. I mostly work from home, but showing up at the office is very useful. So much stuff works better face to face. It saves a lot of faff on IRC. And the connection is faster.
I got up in good time, had a proper breakfast, very nice cup of tea thank you, got myself ready, got on a curiously uncrowded tube train with no copies of Metro (that’s your foreboding, I shall point out), got to work, and … the large iron gates were chained shut.
Because today is the New Year bank holiday.
If I’d procrastinated, of course, I’d have been in bed till eleven like I’d much have preferred to be.
This was a pretty much mathematically perfect example of doing exactly the right things to get something done, except for the fact of doing it at all.
Edit: And today I showed up when people were actually here. My co-workers find me having shown up yesterday hilarious. The perfect employee: dedicated and stupid. The Book of the SubGenius does say that when you foul up, you should crow about it and call great attention to it and you will be thought of as a creative genius.