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I had to go and mention that I had methods to combat the shineys, didn’t I. In the global scheme of things that must be akin to saying those famous last words:

At least it can’t get any worse!

And then of course, it does.

The day following my last post on the subject, the shineys arrived. Apparently they read this blog as well and for the next three days I struggled to do even the simplest of tasks. I had no concentration, no focus and no direction. I adhere to a strict daily routine to avoid just such problems, but in this case it served to no avail. Any little distraction was enough to send me off chasing yet another shiny thing, which inevitably turned into a chase for another. And another… And another…

When the shineys attack they do it en masse, and it’s an organized assault. Their tactics are misdirection and confusion, with a little bit of “don’t you look stupid” thrown in for good measure.  They also have me outnumbered.  there must be a thousand things I need to…

Make that a thousand and four. *sigh*

Normally I don’t let it get to me.  but there are just those days when I’m so busy trying to do everything that nothing at all gets done.  And once it starts, I have no idea how to stop it.  My mind reels from one subject to another.  I find that I’m moving between projects at breakneck speeds, only doing a little here and a little there.  On the best of these days, I get a little of everything done.  On the worst, I’ve made a bigger mess for myself than when I started, with five or ten new projects begun, some of which may never get completed.

Such is a shiny day.  I’m just hoping that today isn’t one of them.