Sickness is in the air

Still two down at home, but life goes on.  Maggot 2 has football after school, which adds an hour to his pick up time and whole lot of stress for the morning preparations, because I now also have to find his kit, in addition to the lunch box/breakfast/teeth/shoes/coat/where's the reading books routine that is the usual pandemonium.

I am now approaching the run-in to the "tunnel of death" of my Tuesday conference calls.  On paper it does not look too bad, but in my mind it is buttock-clenchingly painful.  My routine is that I can only get through it with caffeine, so at 10.15am precisely I start the morning elevenses ritual of hot water on coffee in the caffetiere (with 4 large spoons of coffee to approximate an espresso) and two thirds of a cup of milk heated in the microwave, a loving mix of semi-skimmed and skimmed milk, to create what us Baristas call a semi-semi.  The sort of thing you might get watching an MTV video (pure smut, Ed).  That should provide sufficient caffeine to send me in to orbit for the rest of the day.

The rest of the day is a sprinkling of calls, some actual old-fashioned work, and picking Maggot 2 and A&E's two children up from football at sixteen-ten hours.

I am sort of looking forward to tea time, which I shall be cooking of course, but that will shortly be followed by doing nothing, which is fast becoming one of my most favourite things.

What is there to say about Tuesday

I used to have a set of seven pairs of socks, each with a day of the week on them. Now, at the point of purchase, these seemed like genius, a guarantee that I would know which socks to wear each day, but as time went by, I realised the folly. Monday got paired with Wednesday, one of Thursday was lost forever and don't even get me started on Friday.

So it may well become with putting the day of the week in the title.

There are, after all, only so many ways to mention Tuesday. Even with the power of Uncle Google and a lateral mind, the number of ways to use the word Tuesday are surely finite. For the record, there are exactly 138 million* records returned to the query "witty comments with Tuesday in the title"

I did stumble across some quotes, some of which you may find funny, albeit that none of them include the word "Tuesday"**, many of which seem to be relevant for much of my working day so for your Tuesday delight, here they are (and "who said them" details included for Golfy, who has a very inquisitive mind):

• A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~Fred Allen
• A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted. ~Author Unknown
• A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~Attributed to Arthur McBride Bloch
• A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. ~Author Unknown
• All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. ~Jane Wagner, The Search For Intelligent Life In The Universe, performed by Lily Tomlin 
• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes 
• Today is the last day of some of your life. ~Author Unknown
• Without geography, you're nowhere. ~Author Unknown 
• The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~Author Unknown 
• A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. ~Jack Benny 
• All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought. ~Robert Brault 
• Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. ~Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless 

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* I am guessing the search bot got bored after that and gave up

** Are you with me in thinking that the search bot may just be making it up?