Things to do while working

..especially if you're the only one at work and your desktop is empty.

1. Sort all your digital pics into folders. Geez - 50MB of dog pictures??? Burn them to CD as backups, just in case the computer gets the holiday spirit and crashes.

2. Delete all old files in My Documents. Just as you finish deleting them, someone asks for one from 2003...

3. Water the plants, clean the leaves of the big one so it can actually breathe without a layer of dust choking it.

4. Drink lots of water, as per earlier-in-the-year resolution. Realize after about half an hour that this also entails running to the loo a lot. And that you feel hungrier sooner. Go dig out the last peanuts & raisins and eat them.

5. Daydream. A lot.

6. Check for ftp server updates and listen to your music. Loudly.

7. Go through desk drawers and chuck out junk. Realize you missed a few people's birthdays when you discover your birthday list.

8. Turn the chair upside-down, adjust it so it no longer cuts off the circulation in your legs when you sit all day.

9. Stare out the window and wonder what everyone else is doing with their time off.

10. Rework that home-made goodies Xmas list. Surf a bit to find other ideas. Make a list for yourself and email it to your sis-in-law's mother, cos she asked for it a few days ago and you forgot all about it.

11. Write. You do have deadlines, after all.

12. Blog. Because it's been awfully quiet around here lately.

13. Re-organize your files. Again. Decide they were better the first way and re-re-organize them.

14. Blog again.

15. Repeat.