There may be asteroids

clockAt an early meeting last week, a colleague pointed at a spot on my screen where colored boxes blended into a menacing hue: one of several points on my calendar where meetings were stacked on each other.

“What’s that?” he asked.

“THAT is where I figure out how to be four places at once,” I said, “unless an asteroid hits the earth and ends life as we know it. Which could also happen.”

My colleague is a very active community volunteer. He’s retired, kids grown, a prolific reader, an amateur woodworker, and blah, blah, sundry other stuff one does when one has spare time.

“Your week is more crowded than my entire month,” he said. “I’m going home to take a nap.”

I left him with the bill for breakfast.

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