What to do on a Tuesday afternoon.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Through eldrich forces beyond human understanding, events have aligned to give me the rest of the afternoon off. What to do, what to do…

Should I write the great American novel? Cure cancer? Overthrow the government of a small island nation and install myself as dictator for life?

I have a whole afternoon to fill up here. Any suggestions?

2

Take up tabletop wargaming.

3

Play Starcraft II.

4

Jigzone.com - an online jigsaw puzzle, with a couple dozen different cuts, and hundreds of different images. If you like puzzles, you could spend hours here.

The dictator-for-life thing sounds like a bore, actually. I mean, it’d be fine to have the masses adore you and throw flowers petals in your path and virgin daughters in your bed, but after a few days, they’ll start bringing you their problems to solve. “Our roads suck”. “The school has no books”. “The volcano is erupting”. And you’re expected to have the solution for all of this at hand. Unless you’ve got a general or prime minister who’s slavishly loyal and a glutton for punishment, you’ll soon get sick of the job. Worse yet, the PM might start lusting for all those virgins thrust upon you, and start gunning for YOUR job. And remember, he knows where you hid all the bodies.

5

I went to see a movie. If I had known you weren’t doing anything I’d have called and asked if you wanted to go.

6

I went shopping - found a great sale at The Bay. You’re probably not much of a shopper, though.

7

A) Library
B) Bike Ride
C) Nature trail (get off the beaten path)

8

Nap.

I think I’ll … zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzz

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O.K. I’m back. I ended up going for the “overthrow the government of a small island” thing, but I was smoking a pig in my back yard, so instead of dictator for life I opted for dictator till about 8:45 PM. I spent way too much time and effort developing the pork dry rub for that pig, so I wasn’t going to give it up on some coconut bikinied honies.

But now I have Wednesday afternoon to fill up, and I have to say, people. your suggestions are boring. Starcraft II? Solved it. Yep, I’m the only person to solve an MMORPG. I’m that awesome. Nap? I took one while reading your post. See a movie? Hell, I made a movie about the whole island takeover thing yesterday. Took me five minutes. It’s called Conch Hurricane: Piggy’s Revenge and will air on TNT next spring.

I have the whole afternoon, what do I do?