My Day (no particular day, could be any day)

06:30 - wake up, ignore alarm, go back to sleep
06:40 - kids make me get up, drink coffee, iron kids' uniforms for school
07:05 - drink more coffee, make lunches for school
07:30 - log on & let e-mail download while I run around the house yelling and finding bus fare
07:55 - kids leave for school, drink more coffee, read e-mail
08:30 - shower, clean teeth, get dressed, drink more coffee
08:45 - eat breakfast [usually more coffee and a bagel]
09:00 - answer e-mail
09:30 - check online messages
09:45 - start in on any outstanding work that needs doing
10:10 - drink more coffee
10:20 - extract cat from goldfish bowl
10:25 - check to see if I need to extract goldfish from cat
10:30 - drop half a Valium into the goldfish bowl and put cat out
10:35 - drink more coffee
10:45 - consider washing the dishes
10:50 - saved by the e-mail "bing-bong", go back to the PC
11:00 - wrestle the SPAM folder into submission
11:10 - start checking the day's news online for tasty morsels
13:15 - take a coffee break and answer some more e-mail
13:40 - 2nd reboot of the day [makes mental note to put "new PC" or "bigger hammer" on wish list!]
13:50 - lunch [potato chips & coffee while I move some files about <g>]
14:05 - remember to pee [begrudgingly]
14:10 - something awry with the 'net connection, not happy - full system scan commences
15:00 - paranoid as usual, maybe just be the ISP [again] but better safe than sorry - defrag
15:05 - start getting ready for the kids coming out of school
15:15 - field a phone call from family member
15:45 - those blue boxes are still creeping across the screen [sigh]
15:50 - rifle through freezer to find something I can microwave but looks as if I have spent all day preparing
16:00 - first wave arrives home from school along with cat
16:05 - first wave strolls through house dropping clothes and candy wrappers, I scurry behind asking if they have any homework and wondering if the cat can possibly be comfortable in that position
16:15 - smell burning
16:20 - having put out the dinner I go back to rifling through the freezer
16:30 - second wave arrives and picks a fight with the first wave
16:35 - referee mode /on
16:45 - referee mode /off
16:50 - and those blue boxes are still creeping across the screen
17:00 - smell burning [again]
17:05 - having put out dinner for a second time, admit defeat, call for pizza
17:10 - those blue boxes have finally stopped, reboot computer
17:15 - drink more coffee, log on, fetch e-mail
17:45 - pizza arrives
17:50 - open pizza to find it has arrived upside down - all of the topping is stuck to the top of the box
17:55 - call to have pizza replaced
18:10 - extract cat from upside down pizza, hope that pizza guy doesn't notice the extra damage
18:15 - natives are getting restless
18:20 - referee mode /on
18:21 to 18:34 - censored to protect the easily troubled, teen to teen sibling combat is never pleasant
18:35 - referee mode /off
18:40 - replacement pizza arrives, pizza guy doesn't seem to notice cat damage and has brought complimentary garlic bread (joy)
19:15 - pizza eaten, natives quiet, cat asleep
19:20 - field call from family [again] (my, but they are persistent)
19:25 - remember that I have an assignment due in in the morning
19:30 - realize that tomorrow is, in fact, today, I have missed class and my assignment is late
19:35 - call friend to see what I missed in class
19:50 - drink more coffee, check to see if there is a movie on, wrestle kids for control of computer
20:00 - hear police sirens outside, count kids, check to see where cat is, all is well
20:10 - engage in conversation about whether or not it's my fault that my teen son forgot to pack his soccer boots this morning and subsequently got told off for not having them
20:15 - I lost the argument, apparently it is all my fault and I should have realized that in the first place
20:20 - advance towards teen son's bedroom to help find soccer boots
20:21 - run screaming back downstairs (please, please don't ever make me go back in there again)
20:25 - finally get computer back, log on
20:30 - daughter tells me she has a science project due in the next day and needs web research
21:15 - complete daughter's research, tuck her into bed, turn out light, get her a drink, adjust the covers, find the cat, fetch "bunny", get her another drink, listen to several really important things, turn nightlight on, say goodnight (for the 5th time) make a fast exit
21:25 - have missed the first half an hour of the movie I wanted to watch
21:30 - drag teenage son away from IM and insist that he go get ready for bed
21:35 - close a plethora of windows, log onto own account, check e-mail, wander into IRC...
23:40 - ...oh my, where did that time go?
23:45 - begin late assignment
02:30 - finish assignment
02:45 - complete several web pages which need building/editing
03:10 - log on, check e-mail, answer e-mail, grab coffee, wander into IRC...
04:55 - ...oh my...
05:00 - log off, clean teeth, go to bed
06:30 - wake up, ignore alarm, go back to sleep...