Here I am, working away, and there’s all sorts of other tempting things that I could be doing! I’m the only guy in the office today, so there’s no easy way to take a break. OfficeKevin should be back tomorrow though.
At least I’m not a duck. They don’t seem to get any breaks. Yes, the duck is still sitting there by the trailer, same as last week. I think she looks disgruntled.
But never mind the duck!
I could be reading right now… I’ve got the latest Harry Potter book. Ok, granted, I don’t have it with me right now… It’s with my Fiancee, since she’s got more break time right now than I do. Plus I stayed up until nearly 1 in the morning reading it and I was about 130 pages ahead of her at last count, so I’ve got no cause to complain… What we might do is take turns reading the book to each other. And those of you who think that’s all cutesy-wootsy can take a flying leap. It’s a matter of survival here! The more one person reads compared to the other, the greater the chance of letting a spoiler slip. And that could result in deadly retribution…
The other thing I could have done was to take off to central campus to watch the broadcast of Steve Jobs’ keynote from the Apple World Wide Developer Conference. I’m watching the text feed update, and I may be able to catch the Quicktime replay later, but I could be standing in a room in East Engineering (sorry, “West Hall”) with a bunch of other Macheads watching a live satellite broadcast… I could call it “Development Time!” I was a bit sparse on that on my year-end review. It’d be a lot better than reading sporadic updates on a site where the authors don’t seem to know the difference between “dual” and “duel”…
But then the rush slides and the posters that I did today would be sitting here in the office, not to mention the grant renewal application. We’d have a couple of disgruntled customers, some of whom might be out a serious chunk of change. And I’d feel all guilty about it.
Ah well. Might as well fire up the Quicktime keynote replay. I can let that run in the background while I print dye-subs…