As Yoda would ask, “A waster of time, are you?”
That’s his question.
Mine is, “What is your favorite way to waste time?” Now, be honest—I know you’d like to say that you never waste time.
As would I. But we all do, don’t we? Might as well come clean with it. Especially here with our friends.
Oh…mine? Glad you asked. It’s called Quordle. A word game, so technically it’s not a time-waster. (Or so says I…) 😊
Here’s a link. https://quordle.game/
So, TKZers, out with it…tell us how you prefer to waste time.
Backgammon or Hearts on my phone. It’s hard to find actual human beings who know how to play them, let alone skillfully.
Good morning, Jim.
I like real-live Scrabble with real live faces, but my husband…well, let’s just say he’s not a word guy. More of a nuts, bolts, and wire guy. My daughters love Scrabble–and crow when they beat me–but they live in Mississippi and Texas, so that’s kinda hard.
Have a good day!
The time waster that makes me feel the guiltiest is reading. This blog and Webster’s Word of the Day are the only online things I do outside of book research and I never go down a rabbit hole with that. Gardening, preserving produce, walking, arts and crafts, baking—I can justify everything else I do. But reading? I should spend that much time writing instead.
Of course, “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Martha Troly-Curtin
Oh, yes yes and yes again!
I like that quote…
Hi Becky!
I just can’t bring myself to say, “Reading is a waste of time.” (Isn’t that a quote from a novel…the character who said it was a curmudgeon of a teacher or something…)
It’s the research rabbit holes that get me. Like Alice in Wonderland, I think. I look up and say, “How in the heck did I get here?”
🙂
Have a great weekend!
Spider solitaire and research rabbit holes, although I sometimes find gold nuggets that get used in stories.
Good morning, Debbie.
Spider solitaire…I’ll have to check that out. Never heard of it.
And mining for story gold is the most fun ever!
Thanks for stopping by, and have a good day…
My biggest is Facebook. I need to check in with my cyber friends. Find out what is the latest thing the orange blob has done. Enjoy a chuckle.
Hi Alan!
I’ve severely curtailed my SM time. It’s just getting so un-social-like these days. I’ve noticed people (or bots?) saying things to a screen they’d never say to a flesh-and-blood face. I do check in with fam members, though, just to see what they’re up to.
Have a great day, and thanks for dropping by!
I waste time on Instagram and Facebook. I would never consider reading a good book a waste of time. 🙂
“I would never consider reading a good book a waste of time.”
Yep, agreed.
Have a good day, my friend!
Although I don’t consider them a waste of time, I like crossword puzzles, Wordle, and a couple of other word games.
Hi Kay!
I personally think Yoda would agree. Let’s see, how would he say that?
“A waste of time they are not.” Sounds about right, right?
🙂
Have a great weekend!
“Sometimes I stop to think, other times I just stop.” I don’t remember where or even when I heard that quote, but it often applies to me when I waste time. Now days when I “just stop” it’s more than likely that I am rabbit holing something. I find that the free tiers on the various AIs allow me to pursue all those little “I wonder what…”s. I never knew I wanted to know so much trivia.
🙂
“I never knew I wanted to know so much trivia.” Ha! Oh, that’s good, Marshall! A comment on the digital/AI/information glut age we live in.
I was just saying this morning over conversation with my husband and our very vocal dog…how happy folks were back before everything we don’t need to know was literally at our fingertips.
Have a great day!
HARD sudokus.
But I actually have a purpose: I use them to measure brain functionality and speed (I need a certain amount to be able to write).
If the hard sudoku takes me around 6 minutes, the brain is on, and I can usually stop futzing about, block some time from the internet with my Freedom program, and get to work.
If, however, it takes a long time to do one, or, occasionally, I can’t do it at all, I KNOW with complete CERTAINTY that I won’t be able to write, no matter how hard I try to try. It’s biochemical – it has to do with my chronic illness – and I have NO sure way to fix it (though allowing myself to crash sometimes clears my brain for a while).
I’m off to check for today; the past weeks have been so full of doctors’ appointments and tests that Scene 43.2 hasn’t gotten any of my love, and today is the first uncommitted day: maybe the brain will be on, and maybe I’ll get the next chunk of work done. Or maybe not, and it will serve as a recovery day.
The latter is more likely, because I’ve already dealt this morning in our retirement community with the people who came to clean the dryer vent – and that took a bite out of today’s energy.
But the vent is clean. Except I can’t crash because they piled all the clothes from the dryer on my bed. 🙂 Hard sudoku, here I come.
Hi, Alicia…
It sounds like sudokus is your fixer for sure. I’m glad you have it to “fall back” on.
I hope 43.2 gets some of your lovin’ today… 🙂
Not much yesterday, but a goodly chunk today. Thanks, Deb.
I gave myself MORE time – 4 hours – and took a nap forced by my body in the middle, and still had writing time.
The only thing I consider a waste of time is when people waste your time–by that I mean you spend 30 minutes on the phone trying to get a hold of someone to resolve some type of issue and either you can’t get a real person or you do but the issue still isn’t resolved.
I don’t want lousy customer service using up my time to fall down the rabbit holes. LOL!
Hi Brenda…
Oh, yeah…don’t take precious rabbit hole time away from us!
Have a good weekend.
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