The god of multitasking, via flickr user jurvetson, cc license
There are few things at which I can truly say I’m the best in the world. But one of them is being bad at multitasking. I am the world’s best, bad multitasker. And that, dear readers, is why I need your help. Can you slot the following tasks into exactly 60 minutes?
Of course, there are some rules:
• Exactly two tasks may be accomplished simultaneously.
• You may not eat dinner (or feed it to your kids) until you’ve cooked it, and cannot do dishes until everyone’s eaten.
• You must shovel food into both children at the same time.
• You may not have “kids in the tub” until you “wrangle kids into tub”
Here are your tasks and the time needed to accomplish them (in minutes):
15 — Cook dinner
10 — Shovel food into child #1
10 — Shovel food into child #2
7 — Eat dinner
10 — Do dishes
5 — Wrangle kids into tub
7 — Kids in tub
3 — Conversation with wife about things of huge life importance
2 — Drink one nightly beer
9 — Read Shouts & Murmurs and cartoon caption contest sections of the New Yorker
6 — General cleaning
8 — Aimless fretting
5 — Fretting about work
5 — Fretting about money
4 — Fretting about old dog
7 — Packing school lunches
5 — Surfing GeekDad
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