The Fallacy of To-Do Lists

I had a simple one for yesterday. Two big things I needed to get done:

* Prepare a real estate closing for tomorrow- figures, paperwork, making sure we were in agreement on all of the above; and

* Finish my paper for the Mets conference and get the references all verified and annotated to submit it to the University by today.

Done, and done.  Here's what I didn't have on the list, though, that I wound up having to juggle in between those two things:

*Spend three times the usual amount of time at church on Sunday, the extra two hours in meetings that made me want to attach a detonator to my brain and push the plunger;

* Fight further with the tablet;

* Discover that one of Eleanor's primary pieces of software had gone off the reservation, go through numerous steps to troubleshoot and ultimately determine it was a not-playing-nice-with-Vista issue, uninstall it prepatory to a clean reinstall (since it had worked fine with Vista for close to two years), and have the reinstall fail because we can't find the packaging with the software serial number on it;

* Argue with Adobe about the issue and ultimately determine that they're a bunch of asshats who we'd like to Flash our middle fingers at;

* Find Tasha (the oldest dog) limping earlier today (she's been medicated and it seems better, but still).

But I got those two things done, yessiree Bub. Go me:P