Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 20, 2024

One of the most useful “how to handle too much work” seminars focused strongly during the first half day on not doing things that don’t help you get your work done. I have no idea what they talked about in the second half of the day.

Well, that is Hawaii. So that’s the best he’s gong to get.

Well, he WILL learn. Eventually.

At all the conventions I ever attended, every day was the day after some cocktail party or other.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

Hangovers, I do not miss them!!

“The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.” – Laurence J. Peter in “Peter’s Quotations”

And has HE learned ‘self improvement?’

Sometimes, meetings are the practical alternative to work.

Future archeologists on their hover boards will still be sporting a wristwatch of some sort.

And wondering what a cola bottle symbolized and what we used toilet bowls for.

Didn’t specify the time zone.

On the other hand, if they were there, they wouldn’t need to be.

One year I took a vacation in Key West. I signed up for the 9 am parasailing ride. My normal work shift was 6 am to 2 pm, so I was used to getting up early. I had the entire ride to myself.

“Oops, sorry, I thought this was the Procrastinator’s Club seminar.”

My drinking buddy said he signed us up for 20 jumps at the prostitute club, and showed me the contract.

Imagine my utter disappointment when I read ‘Parachute Club’..

A cocktail party at a self-improvement seminar? Where’s the wisdom in that?

Noon might have worked. 0700 meant 0h0h headache

Nah, it wasn’t just the cocktail party, these people just need a LOT of self-improvement.

What is this “punctuality” of which you speak?

Maybe they preferred not to go.

Never hold an important meeting after Super Bowl Sunday. – we had an important meeting with an Admiral at 8am—-our leader a tank commander built like a tank was wearing a 3 piece suit 2 sizes too small, a tie that was crooked and a vest that was buttoned wrong; and he was the sharpest of our group…As we left Bert said “If anyone ever schedules a meeting first thing on Monday post super bowl, i’ll shoot him”

He might check if they went to the Joy of Procrastination seminar, scheduled for 8 am

Meetings are for dweebs ! ;-)

Another rule I learned from someone who made a lot of presentations at meetings: if your slot on the schedule is the last one before happy hour, do the short version.

No imagination when it comes to wall art

Obviously, the leader of the seminar didn’t go to the cocktail party.

Were there any other survivors?

He was actually an audience member. But he got so bored of waiting that he decided to see whether the chairs at the front of the room were more comfortable.