# What have you accomplished today?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 27, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085 "2005-06-27T20:08:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/1 "2005-06-27T20:08:39Z")
I have:
- Gotten a haircut.
- Picked a bunch of dead skin off the soles of my feet.
- Printed two (2) graphs.
- Fixed a stupid I/O bug in one of my programs.
- Started up a huge calculation which is currently grinding my advisor’s Solaris workstation into the dirt. (In retrospect, there were other things I could have been noodling around with, instead of watching this chug, so I should have fiddled around with those and started the massive job right before I left. _C’est la vie_.)
- Written two (2) paragraphs of my thesis.
- Resisted the urge to go down to the vending machine to get chocolate.
Are we impressed? What have you accomplished with your day?
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### Author:  [@GreyWanderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreyWanderer)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/2 "2005-06-27T20:19:05Z")
- Cut my fingernails
That’s about it I think…
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/3 "2005-06-27T20:19:09Z")
Bought a rain cover for a future mountain bike purchase.
Quickly re-learned a bit of SQL to provide some complex information from a database at work.
Decided what mountain bike I want.
It’s my first day back so not much.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/4 "2005-06-27T20:19:32Z")
Cleaned out the freezer. Removed old and busted garbage disposal and replaced with newer, more bad ass version with much help from my lovely assistant Alias. I may clean out the fridge later now that all the junk can get tossed down the drain.
Right now, it’s Guiness time. 😃
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### Author:  [@LadyMack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyMack)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/5 "2005-06-27T20:22:30Z")
Got outta bed.
Drank coffee.
Read the boards.
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### Author:  [@Prancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prancer)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/6 "2005-06-27T20:22:56Z")
Got rid of digital cable in favor of the much cheaper basic. (Difficulty rating with 1 being easy and 10 being very hard = 9)
Wrote a kick-ass letter of reference (5)
Helped four students with research projects (2)
Ate an old-ish, spotted banana (6)
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/7 "2005-06-27T20:23:47Z")
Actual “work” will be italicized:
-Got to work.
-Read the SDMB.
-Played my daily allotment of “[Legend Of The Red Dragon](http://bbsmates.com/lord.asp)”.
-Read some more SDMB.
-_Retransmitted a batch of news articles that a customer lost_.
-Read some more SDMB.
-Ate lunch.
-Started reading a new novel.
-Argued with a co-worker whether Edgar Ray Killen looks more like Uncle Junior or the Six Flags dancing guy.
-Read some more SDMB.
-Posted to a thread about what you did today.
-Got a promotion and a fat raise…waitaminute…
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### Author:  [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/8 "2005-06-27T20:27:35Z")
-Go downtown
-Drop off the money I owe my friend for the phone bill
-Pick up baking supplies
Now if I can only get around to making pie, I’ll be all set.
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### Author:  [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/9 "2005-06-27T20:28:52Z")
- Made breakfast and lunches for my family.
- Entered over one hundred ‘HHS Forms 1572’ into my company’s DocManagement system, in support of drug shipments to investigating physicians. Quite boring, really, but high attention to detail is required.
- Rescued **Intaglio** from a potential automotive overheat situation.
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/10 "2005-06-27T20:30:23Z")
I’m proud to say I just washed yesterday’s dirty dishes.
I cleaned the litter box.
I also fed bananas to Issy and made my bed.
As soon as I pull the chicken out of the oven and warm up some tortillas my day will be complete!
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### Author:  [@TwoOnSunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoOnSunday)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/11 "2005-06-27T20:36:57Z")
-Lounged in bed for an extra half hour to avoid the rush at work and to finish a good dream I was having.
-Got to work and felt guilty about lounging.
-Finished the damn ordering project I was assigned. Got to flirt with a stranger in the process.
-Had lunch and read part of a book.
-Became distraught that I forgot the good dream I had this morning.
Damn board!
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### Author:  [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/12 "2005-06-27T20:54:44Z")
I spent a good portion of the morning upgrading my cell service and phones, I was on hold/transferred 3 times after not being able to do what I needed to do online. The hold time exceeded 20 minutes total after chatting online with customer service who gave me an 800 number to call and spending 1 1/2 hours trying to find it myself.
listened to 7 voice mails, responded to only one of them.
attended 1 meeting
participated in 1 conference call
wrote a couple hunderd lines of code. (while on hold and during the conference call)
had lunch at my desk and read the boards, still reading them actually. 😃
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### Author:  [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/13 "2005-06-27T21:22:31Z")
Managed to get up.
WEnt to work, where I am trying to figure out & set up this new westernblot method for H. pylori IgG detection. Talked to some guy in Germany for 3 hours on telephone with the problems I was having. After doing the (long) procedure, I ended up with 95% positive rate (should be around 50%) for the second time. Now I am PISSED OFF!
Home eating dinner now.
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### Author:  [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/14 "2005-06-27T22:55:17Z")
- Ate cereal.
- Went to orthopedist and learned I do not need knee surgery.
- Took the car to get a tire fixed (screw stuck in it).
- Had lunch and then ice cream with dad.
- Called the lawyers to let them know I don’t need knee surgery.
- Called the hospital where I’m supposed to intern next year and I still don’t know who my field supervisor will be. Grrrr.
- Had an hour-long massage.
- Helped dad put together tonight’s chef salad, which I now must go eat!
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/15 "2005-06-27T23:10:40Z")
I woke up around 10am grabbed the bhong fed the cat grabbed the bhong again played my favorite game in the whole world (Stoned Guy In The Shower) then I played guitar then I rolled one then I perused this forum a bit smoked some more petted the cat played guitar smoked more played more guitar read more on this forum smoked some more…
later I will smoke and play video games and more guitar and read some more HP&TOOTP and smoke more and then more guitar then bed
another perfect day! WOOT!
Bo
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/16 "2005-06-27T23:11:11Z")
I rolled a twenty-sided die at least 96 times. Pseudarandom number generators aren’t secure, so…
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/17 "2005-06-27T23:15:43Z")
I’ve knocked three items off today’s “To Do” list already, and it’s only 9.30am. The next one (finalising some role statements) will take me through until lunchtime though I suspect.
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/18 "2005-06-27T23:30:18Z")
-Got up
-Exercised
-Lunch
-Read boards
-Edited a paper
-Beat an incredibly annoying mission of _X-Wing_(The Sullustian Leader one, for those who have played the game).
-Beat a much easier mission of X-wing
-Read Boards
-Read some Nieztche.
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### Author:  [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/19 "2005-06-27T23:34:27Z")
–Woke up
–Called work to see what time I had to go in
–Made an awesome sandwich
–Went to work where I eventually ate said sandwich
–Came home
–Came here
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-accomplished-today/310085/20 "2005-06-28T01:59:56Z")
Today I:
[ul][li]Ate breakfast. An Australian Toaster Biscuit brand English muffin with marg, Vegemite, and cheddar cheese[/li][li]Talked to my cousin and uncle, after my other uncle sent me an e-mail telling me my cousin’s mother (and first uncle’s wife) died[/li][li]Passed the news on to my sister[/li][li]Got the trash out in time for the twice-monthly pick-up[/li][li]Edited a wedding ceremony[/li]Answered e-mails[/ul]
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