Planning ahead

[rowyn]

Plan for Friday, December 20


6:30AM-7:00AM: Get woken up by Lut’s alarm going off every ten minutes while he hits the snooze. Be happy.
7:00AM-7:10AM: Feed cats. Fix breakfast. Be happy.
7:10AM-7:20AM: Eat breakfast. Throw cats out of lap so you can eat breakfast. Read webcomics. Be happy.
7:20AM-7:29AM: Pet cats. Finish reading web comics. Be happy.
7:30AM: Throw cats out of lap so can give Lut goodbye hug. Be happy.
7:31AM-8:00AM: Pet cats. Webbrowse. Be happy.
8:00AM-8:15AM: Get dressed for work. Wear jeans and red shirt in honor of Security Guard D – er, in honor of local football team home game. Be happy.
8:15AM-8:30AM: Walk to bus stop. Catch bus to work. Be happy.
8:30AM-8:50AM: Braid hair. Read some of The Soprano Sorceress on bus. Be happy.
8:51AM-10:00AM: Work. Fix rejects, balance WIP accounts. Be happy.
10:00AM-2:00PM: Start to slack off. Nibble on junk food from home. Read Wall Street Journal. See what mainstream movie Joe Morgenstern hates this week (probably “The Two Towers”). Open mail, Sort out payments. Answer email & phone messages. Be happy.
2:00PM-2:30PM: Eat lunch. Read more of The Soprano Sorceress. Ignore the incessant noise of the TV playing in the lunch room. Be happy.
2:31PM: Listen to “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” for 8,923rd time since the branch started piping in Christmas music two weeks ago. But be happy anyway!
2:32PM: Play Rush album just loud enough to drown out the Christmas music inside cube. Be happy.
2:33PM-4:00PM: Dink around. Process payments. Answer more email and phone messages. Be happy.
4:01PM-5:20PM: Stop procrastinating and work on one of the annoying dull projects that’s been on desk for a few weeks waiting to get done. Be happy.
5:20PM-5:40PM: Ride home from work with Lut. Try to talk Lut into going to Wal-Mart to get containers for Christmas presents. Be happy.
5:40PM-6:30PM: Go to Wal-Mart. Fight through last-minute shopping crowds to find containers. Be happy.
6:30PM-7:00PM: Wait in line to check out from Wal-Mart with all the other last-minute shoppers. Be happy.
7:00PM-7:30PM: Drive home. Be happy.
7:30PM-9:00PM: Go into orgy of baking goodies to ship to various relatives. Be happy.
9:00PM-9:20PM: Play game of WarCraft. Win. Be happy.
9:20PM-10:20PM: Resume baking orgy. Be happy.
10:20PM-10:40PM: Play game of WarCraft. Lose. Be happy.
10:40PM-11:30PM: Work on novel. Be happy.
11:30PM-12:30AM: Finish baking orgy. Plan on getting gift baskets for anyone that no food is available for. Be happy.
12:30AM: Go to bed. Be. Happy.

So, Level Head, do I have the right idea yet? :)

Comments

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

"If you're happy and you know it, load your gun..." ;)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

The Soprano Sorceress?

Does she have to sing from her grimoire?

Okay, that was a horribly botched attempt at a pun. ('gryn)

[rowyn]

That's disturbingly catchy.

:)

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

You can play a Warcraft game in 20 minutes?

Sounds Suitably Micromanaged

[telnar.livejournal.com]

I suppose that I generally look at "tomorrow" (whatever day that happens to be) with a simpler plan like:

* Get up when I get around to it
* Do some work -- preferably showing up by 11 so that I can catch the morning folk
* Try to remember if there was anything else I was supposed to do
* If there wasn't anything I was supposed to do (and sometimes if I just wasn't in the mood to do it), find something I feel like doing
* Figure out the rest as I go

Then again, I have no idea if agenda items like "be happy" actually work. I've never tried that -- it just seems to happen better by accident/default.

Somehow I remembered a Dilbert line when I saw all of this. Dilbert had recently suggested in a meeting that as part of it's image campaign that the company should send out huge volumes of unsolicited Email when Wally said something to the effect of "You have the look of someone who has just been but in charge of implementing his sarcastic comment."

Anyway, may the day go well whether or not you were serious about this schedule. Who knows, you might end up finding something new and random to do that disrupts it beyond all recognition. It could even be fun.

Telnar

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Oho! The sequence:

I saw from the top the "Be Happy" theme, and was intrigued.

I skipped down almost to the bottom, saw "Finish baking orgy", made a mental note to get the recipe. Saw that the "Be happy" theme had been continued; nodded at this.

Worked backward up the list, discovering in the process that you meant "an orgy of baking". Ah.

And only a moment ago saw your reference to me. But yes, it is a good plan. How did it go?

===|==============/ Level Head

[rowyn]

Yeah, my typical 3-on-3 game of WarCraft 3 takes an average of 20 minutes. Some of them run long, so I don't count on it. For example, I wouldn't've popped a pan of brownies in for 25 minutes and then hopped into a WC3 game. :) I've played games that took over an hour, but only once or twice. Many are over in the first 8 to 10 minutes.