Slow Down!

Feverishly typing at a keyboard gives one the appearance of being busy, which of course, you are. The objective of this activity may not be the one that you are payed for but it helps to vent the soul and that can’t be bad. This raises the point of this post – bludging, slacking off, malingering, goldbricking, to be dilatory, shilly-shally, trifle, drifting, loiter, saunter, twiddling your thumbs and a host of others. May be there are more words for this act than Eskimo words for snow (I’ll let the task of tallying the numbers slide for a while).

Someone famous once said that a language will develop many terms for common objects or ideas (I could find out but I’ll let it drift). My thesis is that the act of avoiding work is common. As I head into this rundown phase of employment with my present company I find many reasons to potter.

In fact I have always had a tendency toward indolence. One of my favourite albums is called the “The Shiftless Merle Fyshwick”. So while I am shirking work at the moment I don’t feel too bad about frittering away a few moments. In fact killing time before heading home to vegetate is a kind of preparation.

So mallingering at work is a way of life for many. Even high executives often get feather bedded, the best employees will goof off from time to time and virtually all workers aim for retirement. My current slow down is more of a cathartic exercise than mere lollygagging.

I could goof off for hours on this subject but it is time to shut down for the day and go home to piddle about in my work shop. I am building a Thermin Synthesiser at the moment, when I pull my finger out I'll write about that.

Duck and Cover. Good advice from a happier time