Bad: Yak Shaving
Yak Shaving: Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you’re working on.

For example: You need patch your server. One of the patch’s requirements is that you upgrade to a new version of some application. The application upgrade requires that you upgrade your video card, which requires that you go to the store. The trip to the store requires that you get gas, and that requires finding your wallet. Finding your wallet means that you have to clean your apartment, which requires that you fix the belt on the vacuum, which requires finding that tiny screwdriver set…

I have been doing this at work for 3 days with limited time and even more limited success.

Good: New Baby
Today, somewhere in or around Eskistuna, Sweden, Jay and his beautiful Swedish wife, Jenny just had a baby girl today. I am slated with the task of buying the baby tiny, little Vans, and making her tiny, little, pink Slayer T-shirts.

Points to ponder: 1.) American maternity leave is 13 weeks. Swedish maternity leave is 96. 2.) They say that children are payback for all the stupid things you’ve done. 3.) The mother walked 4 miles a day throughout the pregnancy. 4.) The baby is yet unnamed, meaning that there still is a chance for the names Mercedes, Porsche, Jasmine, Skyler, Tyler, and Jonathena.

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