Hey Old NFO;

Thanks for the humor, and if you are falling behind, perhaps you either have more tasking than before…or you are moving higher up in the AARP seniority list.

I know it’s meant to be a Blond Joke, but it’s also an Iowa Joke. Almost the FIRST thing I was told upon moving to southern Minnesota was “Give cars with blue license plates LOTS of room.” (Iowa plates were Very Blue at the time. Now they look almost like Minnesota plates. Suspicious, perhaps? I wonder what the other states surrounding Iowa have for license-plate look.)

Ah, foo. I always look for a good rant from an excellent author, and now I’m wondering what you were going to rant about. Hmmmm…

How do you get behind? Because for the two days before the weekend, your co-workers and those that you rely upon had sluffed off and not done their darned jobs, and now your bosses (there’s always more than one these days, can’t hire more workers, so let’s hire more bosses…) want all the work done now and you’re the only responsible person in the room.

That’s how you end up being 5 days behind.

Kinda like the Pentagon joke from WWII. Two officers are in the same section, though they don’t know each other. One always comes in late and leaves on-time or even early, and is relaxed. The other always comes in early, works late, sometimes on weekends and is frazzled. Finally the second guy gets up the gall to ask the first guy how he can have such an easy time, as #2 is always so busy and behind deadlines. #1 responds, “It’s easy, every time a difficult assignment comes to me I write “Refer to Capt. Jones” and put it back in the mail. In this huge place, there has to be a Capt. Jones, right?” #2 takes off his coat, rolls up his sleeve, and says “Buddy, I’m Capt. Jones!”