Tax day. In the old world. For the second year of COVID running, the governments of America have moved the tax deadline back. All of which meant I got to spend yesterday working on a toilet/drain repair instead of doing my taxes. You decide if that was better or worse. You might think I’m lazy for waiting ‘til the last minute to get my taxes filed. Call me a procrastinator. I’m just a guy that needs pressure to get things done, most of the time. Working slowly and steadily toward a deadline that lives somewhere far out in the future is harder for me. I don’t have a good sense of time. Now don’t think I’m ignorant of time management techniques, though. I know how to break a task down into smaller parts, plot mini-milestones against a calendar, and deliver those results. I’ve done it. I can do it. But for some stuff? Stuff like taxes? Where I know I just have to sit down for 2-4 hours and hammer it all out? AND I have to wait until all of my paperwork has arrived, which never gets her
King's Folly
Nihilism and cynicism and wild optimism, packaged in a mundane cellophane wrapper for easy consumption.