I would have liked to have spent the last TWT for some time under more leisurely circumstances, alas, the arrow of time flies toward its target with constant velocity, and no deviation.

This isn’t the end of the phoned-in institution I call Time Wastin’ Tuesday, just a break from it that I cannot say will be short or long.

I will be back wastin’ time again, so think of me every Tuesday with my head down and my arse up. I’ll remember those happy, carefree days spent coercing bloggers to squander valuable time with fondness and a twinge of nostalgia.

So that was ( the not quite last ever ) Time Wastin’ Tuesday. How was yours?

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Dear neighbour, if the sound of loud electric guitar with heaps of feedback seemed to coincide with your dog’s barking, perhaps he enjoyed it as much as I did.

Regards,

GB

( and that was time wastin Tuesday… how was yours? )

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For some time now, I have enjoyed wasting a few minutes around 9am while my cheap office supplied tea brews on the Sudoku. In a typical infusion time I can usually knock out a few numbers, and several times during the day I’ll pass through the kitchen area and add a few more.

I don’t know how long the puzzle has resided on page on of Tinytown’s excuse for a newspaper, possibly ages… until today. Today I flipped open the page. It was gone. Nowhere to be seen. Nowhere in the whole paper. Just. Gone. I feel lost.

And that was Time wastin’ Tuesday. How was yours?

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Ahhh, few things have the capacity to waste time like the good old office desk cleanout. Among the treasures discovered during the course of my purge were a 10 base-T network card ( and driver on 3.5″ floppy… whoohoo! ), a packet of expired Pocky chocolates sent back by GeneralSis while she was living in Japan, and last but not least, the CD with the ripped version of Abobe CS2 I was looking for 12 months ago - no longer required thanks to bittorrent and Cs3 ;).

And that was time wastin’ Tuesday. How was yours?

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I could tell you what a complete and utter waste of time today, in fact this week, has been - but I just don’t have the time.

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All up a pretty good TWT today, albeit a bit blokey. I rewarded my 3 hours of home improvement with a 3 hour surf, two Mexican beers, and two episodes of The Simpsons.

And now I am a vewy sweepy General Boy.

So that was Time wastin’ Tuesday. How was yours?

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You know, it’s on days like this I feel like a Home and Away extra. The sun shines brightly, the sky is perfect blue, the sea that  indescribable aqua, and the sand smooth and dotted with carefully spaced  footprints.  A retired looking lady walks past with a little dog and a big dog. A lone beach babe reclines in huge Paris Hilton sunglasses, flicking through a trashy magazine as her long legs darken. A couple walks hand in hand along the waterline, stopping momentarily as she picks up a shell.

Suddenly the director calls to me through his megaphone. “Hey you! Guy with the surfboard? Stop jogging! We need you to walk slowly from camera left, and look out to sea, got it?”

And that was Time wastin’ Tuesday.

How was yours?

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I also discovered something today, whilst standing in the queue at a certain Irish sounding discount liquor store owned by a certain large grocery chain.

Undoubtedly, my debonair demeanor and disarming smile distracted the lovely young lady at the checkout ( read: what the hell happened to his hair? Is it always like that? And is that dry salt all over his eyelashes… or something else? ), and half way through making her giggle she messed up the EFTPOS transaction. She got  “Trevor” over to fix it, but repeated subsequent attempts at completing it failed, as she frantically continued apologising. Eventually she discovered the problem - the Credit Card transaction wouldn’t go through with a total ending in $xxx.82. As soon as she changed it to $xxx.80, bingo!

Yet again, I am impressed… nay… in awe… at just how dumb the technology on which modern commerce depends can be.

And that was Time wastin’ Tuesday. How was yours?

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(scene missing)

… and that was Time wastin’ Tuesday. How was yours?

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Dear timewaster with mobile number starting with 0417 5…..

I saw your number come up Sunday… and yesterday… twice… and didn’t recognize it. Since you didn’t leave a message ( twice ) I assumed you’d made a mistake. So when your number came up again this morning at 7:10am, a time no-one who actually knows me would ever bother trying to call me, I was curious. I missed you the first time, but at 7:13am you tried again… only to hang up the second I announced myself. So tell me, why did you feel the need to call back thirty-one seconds later, wait for me to announce myself again, remain silent for 5 seconds, then mumble something unintelligable and hang up?

Rest assured, Mister articulate, I won’t waste my time answering in future. So up the dose or reduce it pal… whatever… clearly the pills aren’t working.

( … and that was Time wastin’ Tuesday. How was yours? )

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