Office Space...
"I did nothing, and it was everything I thought it would be."
I bagged work on Friday. Not really to do anything as much as to not do a damn thing. Wasn’t so much planned either. I rolled out of bed, put the dog outside, saw the rain and thought the last place I needed to be was in the car, in the rain, and on my way to work. So when the dog came in, I went straight down to the basement, turned on SportsCenter and drifted right back to sleep.
Around 11, I woke up and debated checking my email and phone messages. Around 11:01, I thought the better of it. Went up, got a now burnt cup of coffee, put the dog out again and noticed the sun coming out. Around 11:15 I debated cutting the grass. Around 11:16, I thought the better of it.
Back to the couch a little world cup preview. 20 minutes of that, and back to the zzz’s. As I dozed off, I thought, “I think I am going to skip a lot of work once the copa del mondo gets underway.”
Around 4:00 p.m. or shortly thereafter, the dog decided to wake me up for our day’s exercise. The sun was out, clouds were on the horizon though. That squelched the brief second of guilt I felt about having the third longest lawn on the street. Ran with the dog for a bit. A bit is about all I can run nowadays. Came home flipped on Wolf Blitzer. He always makes me sleep.
6:15 the wife woke me up. Actually, the dog flipping out that her car was in the driveway woke me up. I showered, we went out, got some beers and wings at a local haunt and watched the Yankees whip the Orioles and Pittsburgh's rain delay filler at the same time - those old Willie Stargell era collars kick ass.
I thought about work twice during the workday. Both instances were fleeting.
I rolled in at 2:00 on this beautiful Monday, cause the damn grass still hadn’t cut itself. Seeing the fresh cut and listening to the birds chirp gave me the idea to play golf this week, so I have calendared two dates. Playing 9 on Wednesday, 18 on Thursday.
“Hey Peter, looks like you have been missing a lot of work lately.”
“I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it Bob.”
How’s everyone else doing in their quiet time?
posted by SID Vicious @ 3:25 PM
4 Comments:
Amen, Viscious..
This time of the year always makes me think it's time to get out of the office (just like the coaches are doing, the AD's doing, and the secretaries are doing).
And you are so right--there will be a lot of tardiness or outright work missed once the Copa de Mundial gets underway
Just returned from a long and much needed vacation. Spent 11 days with my family lounging at the pool, on the beach and at a couple of baseball games (and no I did not stat them).
Didn't take a laptop and didn't check my email or voicemail and enjoyed the entire break.
so ... are you still doing 'nothing'?
Not as little as I'd like, but not enough to crowd the marquee soccer games off my calendar either. I have put in about two or three quality work days per week. I'll ramp up to four quality days for the first two weeks after the fourth before kicking back into gear.
I have also seen a lot of baseball - from single A to the bigs - but, like 6/7's anon - I refuse to keep a scorecard. My friends do like me to compute a shelled pitcher's ERA when he gets the hook. I oblige when it's going to be a freakishly high number.
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