I can take delaying work to new heights.  I have done it today, in spades.  I know I’m doing it, there’s no fooling myself.  I have to read about 450 pages of really boring technical material.  I gave myself a deadline to get it all done, there should have been lots of time to do it.  It’s still not done, my deadline is down to about 5 hours of remaining time.  This morning I have wasted about 2 hours of reading time doing the following:

• Tidy the kitchen and house so the cleaning lady could come in and do a good job.
• File some papers
• Clean off my desk
• Facebook check
• Carefully select some reading music in iTunes
• Chat with Nikki who was stuck in an enormous traffic jam
• Scratch four dog ears and two dog bellies
• Tidy up some dangling cables in the office
• Send four emails
• Write this damn blog post

My book remains open beside me as I type this.  Oh, page 298 why do you look like a huge boulder?  There’s no reason why it’s so hard to read this crap, besides the fact that it’s boring, and I know most of it.  Ok, so there are two fairly big reasons.

Alright, that’s it, square the shoulders and just grab page 298 by the horns.  It’s on, Mother-booker!

Wait, what’s that shiny thing over there on the web?  Oh, it’s a cute video of an otter….  awww.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usIxO_beYw

What the?  CRAP.