# So, what's your excuse?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-excuse/425551>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 7, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-excuse/425551 "2007-11-07T15:36:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-excuse/425551/21 "2007-11-09T10:29:17Z")

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4, 7 and 10 for me. Actually I just had my annual appraisal this week and they seem to think I do a great job. Considering how much time I spend on, uh, nonproductive browsing, I find that somewhat surprising. Makes me wonder if I could actually get that much more done if I didn’t (say) read the SDMB at work. Maybe my brain just couldn’t actually work at full speed for a whole day, so it needs to tune out for the odd half-hour every so often…

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-excuse/425551/22 "2007-11-09T14:54:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Colophon]  
Maybe my brain just couldn’t actually work at full speed for a whole day, so it needs to tune out for the odd half-hour every so often…  
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I’m pretty sure this is the mark of genius. I look at the other folks here and most of them seem to be working all the time. I don’t know how they do it, and when I’m cleaning up after them I sometimes wish they would take some time off.

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