Friday OT #2 - Killing Time

[Angie]

What is your favorite way to procrastinate when you have a task at hand?

This is maybe better explained via an example. Sometimes I am trying to think my way around a logistical problem, whether it is work related or not. For some reason, creating a playlist for songs whose titles fits a certain theme allows my brain to focus on something else but kind of keep that tab spinning in the background, and I usually have an answer after about 10 minutes of working on that playlist.

As a result, I have dozens of playlists for themes for everyone from Songs about Places or Women’s Names or Real People, to songs with Greek/Roman mythology references in the title, songs where people laugh or whistle in them. It is a ridiculous hobby.

 

[JP4CY]

Wikipedia redirect after redirect.
I'll start off with something like "Tennessee Valley Authority" and go from there.

 

[somecyguy]

Google news. Start scanning headlines and 10 minutes later I'm reading anything from some weird psychological study to theoretical physics.

 

[GMackey32]

Wikipedia deep dives

 

[Cyclonepride]

I play Slay the Spire quite a bit to fill dead time. It's a roguelike deck building card game if you're not familiar with it, but there's just enough thinking in it to keep the gears of my mind turning while also being something you can put down and pick back up at a moment's notice.

 

[Beernuts]

Sometimes I imagine I am golfing at a favorite course in my mind. I take the time on each hole to select the club, where I want to hit the ball and try to navigate myself through the course. Generally by the third hole I am either asleep or so flipping mad because I hit a slice right into the tree's on hole #3 and have to punch out using a 3 wood only to hit a tree and bounce backward 20 yards and instead of trying to just hit into the fareway I try and hit an unbelievable wedge shot over 80 foot trees onto the green 120 yards away only to hit the top of the fricken tree and now im hitting 4 on a par 4 and still in those fricken tree's.

what was your question again?

 

[VeloClone]

CF

 

[cytor]

I don't procrastinate. If I have a task, I just do it and get it off my plate. Putting things off generally only makes it worse later.

 

[Al_4_State]

Google maps.

I start planning trips I'm probably never going to take and research places that I probably will never go, but it's crazy how much you can learn about anywhere from that.

 

[CYdTracked]

Don't have a go to thing/habit when I procrastinate other than just find anything other than the task I don't want to do at the time. The first thing that I thought of when I saw this was this song though

 

[CoachHines3]

Wikipedia redirect after redirect.
I'll start off with something like "Tennessee Valley Authority" and go from there.

nerd

 

[JM4CY]

nerd

He wanted to say the Hub but knew we would give him **** about it.

 

[JP4CY]

nerd

 

[Angie]

I don't procrastinate. If I have a task, I just do it and get it off my plate. Putting things off generally only makes it worse later.

I think maybe calling it procrastination was the wrong terminology. I’m definitely not one to put stuff off, because I just wanna get it done and over with so that I am not the slowest gazelle. For me, it is more about diverting my attention so that I can let my brain go through something in a way that I am not actively controlling?

 

[Cyclonepride]

I think maybe calling it procrastination was the wrong terminology. I’m definitely not one to put stuff off, because I just wanna get it done and over with so that I am not the slowest gazelle. For me, it is more about diverting my attention so that I can let my brain go through something in a way that I am not actively controlling?

I get what you are saying. For me, when I am struggling to come up with a solution or the proper way to proceed with something, I just stop and let it percolate in my mind and usually I have a better path forward once I get back to it.

 

[jbclone10]

CF

This 100000%

 

[coolerifyoudid]

If I need to really work around a problem, I want silence to work through it. It's weird, because I love listening to a huge variety of music. However, I get distracted by the beat or lyrics too easily if I need to focus. Or if I'm trying to write something either work related or creatively, I do my best work with silence. I've found that I try to hear everything around me at all times, whether I intend to or not. It makes large group settings torturous at times.

If the problem I'm trying to tackle requires putting something together with my hands or figuring out some manual labor issue, I need to get everything laid out in front of me or walk away from it all for a bit. If I try to distract my attention from the task at hand while I can still see everything, I'll just make myself angry and frustrated.

 

[Gonzo]

I usually just pour myself a Scotch 'n Splenda. Tastes like Splenda, gets you drunk like Scotch.

 

[MJ29]

I'm a master at procrasticleaning.

Especially when I really should be writing.

 

[cycloner29]

I'm a master at procrasticleaning.

Especially when I really should be writing.

Read this as procrastration. Ouch!!