That moment when

That moment when you’ve managed to crawl so far back up the rabbit hole of interrupts that you forgot what you were working on before the interruption just satisfied. I cannot remember if there is another question I’m supposed to be answering or task to complete or if I can go back to doing code reviews and then go back to what I said I’d be working on today.

Lesson learned: stop working LIFO and have a process that dumps input into a properly prioritized and annotated queue.

Sportswriters

Unbridled optimism or hopelessly naive?  You make the call:

In a story relating how a team gave up seven goals in the third in a game they had been leading 3 – 0, on their way to their twelfth loss in fourteen games, be sure to mention how they’re still four points out from the last wildcard spot.

Buddy, this team may not earn four more points this season. I think talk of making the playoffs is a bit of a reach.

No rest for the wicked

The thought I was thinking sometime after 03:00 this morning but was too zoned to put together the skills required to post this online:

I would be able to sleep if I could just clear this ticklish lump from my throat. Judging by the difficulty of this task and the general location of the ticklishness this lump may be, in fact, my larynx.