Via Blogless Brother Roy:

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:

I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trashcan under the table, and notice that the trashcan is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the bottle of soda that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the soda aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

I see that the soda is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the soda, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.

I set the soda down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.

So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the
spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm bottle of soda sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.

Posted by: Harvey at 07:57 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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1 That really is me.

Posted by: Trey Givens at May 10, 2004 08:36 PM (wgGZZ)

2 Minor complaint. I can't highlight the text inside the quote box when I'm using IE6. I can using Mozilla but I prefer to use IE. And yes I know how geeky it is to have two browsers but don't blame me. I'm not really the geek in the family which you probably figured out as soon as I said I prefer IE over Mozilla.

Posted by: Lynn S at May 10, 2004 08:38 PM (GxGip)

3 I use three (sometimes four) - IE ( hate it ) - Mozilla (*love* tabbed browsing with background loading) - Netscape ( yeah, it's Mozilla) - Opera (behaves weird sometimes) Oh, and I'm a certified geek. My house has 10 PC's - two web servers on Linux. (ooh, I just remembered I'm staging a PC in the other room I have to deliver tomorrow - gotta go.)

Posted by: _Jon at May 10, 2004 09:17 PM (b16Af)

4 Damn _Jon, you're chronic. I'll bet you've got 7 pocket protectors that you use in a daily rotation, too. You make Drew Carey look like Brad Pitt.

Posted by: Harvey at May 10, 2004 11:14 PM (ubhj8)

5 That's my day!!!! No wonder I am so tired all the time!

Posted by: Susie at May 10, 2004 11:50 PM (2QGe0)

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