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Time once more for Mama Kat’<\/a>s Writer’s Challenge<\/a>. This week the prompt I am going to consider is:<\/p>\n

2.) How do you stave off boredom?<\/span>
(inspired by Jenn’s Pen<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a question with a million answers for me. I love to read (sci-fi, mystery, science, magazines, just about any genre), I love to golf, I love to noodle on my computer, I love to read text books for graduate level math and physics, I love walking the streets and parks of town, … So for me, the real issue is seldom how to stave off bordom, but rather how to make enough time to pursue all the things I love to do.<\/p>\n

You will notice that nowhere did I mention a love of attending meetings in my list. That is because I don’t. But in the current job, there seem to be more of them that any one person should have to suffer through. So, since I spend so much time in meetings, many of them prone to being as interesting as watching paint dry, let’s modify the question to “How do I stave off boredom in meetings?”<\/p>\n

Some further restrictions to make it harder to avoid boredom:<\/p>\n