Ready? Set!

1. Check email.

2. Check Facebook

3. Check blog

4. Check blog statistics

5. Stare off into space and wonder why the blog is suddenly popular in both the Ukraine and China

6. Found 1099

7. Rifle through desk drawer for pass code to tax account 

8. Find photo of friends

9. Copy and e-mail

10. Compose a witty note to go along

11. Send

12. Total all the medical insurance payments

13. Query as to whether proof of medical insurance is necessary

16. See the latest news updates online

17. Click to find out the weather forecast

 18. Nope, not going to fly

19. Ditto

 

20. Check email

21. Wash dishes

22. Vacuum

23. Locate all the interest-paid and interest-received statements

24. Search another desk drawer. Find picture of old boyfriend

25. Google old boyfriend; he's the father of two; admire pics

26. Stare off into space; worry about the children

27. Locate dividend statements

28. Query on difference between qualified and non-qualified dividends

29. Notice that there's a London Spy review

30. Click to see if London Spy is available on DVD

31. It is. Bookmark

32. Search glove box in car for registration tax

33. Find a lost pair of sunglasses in glove box

34. Feel kind of good about that. And they look great. Score

35. Search another desk drawer for paperclip to attach car reg

36. Find sweet pea seed pack in drawer

37. Google whether it's too late to plant sweet pea seeds

38. Oh, what the heck, plant them anyway

39. Google how to plant sweet peas

40. Search tool shed for trowel. Find old hedge trimmer

41. Recharge hedge trimmer

42. Wonder why life isn't more deductible

43. Stare off into space about this

44. Check email

45. There a messages from friends . . .