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Missed Opportunity

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What a surprise!

I’m just home from work and I notice that yesterday’s blog post is still front and center. And a lovely rant it is from Joanne – well worth two days’ exposure.

I fully intended to put up a different guest post today, but mis-timed the automation and left baboons stranded on this most unsettling day. My sincere apologies to Sherrilee, whose blog was supposed to be published today. I’ll hold it so it can have the greatest possible exposure another day soon.

If nothing else, this is proof positive for my employer that I’m not wasting resources by checking my personal blog on company time.

Tell us about a time you completely missed a deadline.

33 thoughts on “Missed Opportunity”

  1. What, ho! I’m first? The world has come to an end!

    Dale, you deserve to miss a day. You’ve been doing this for years now without missing a beat. I think today is the perfect day to miss. And it gave me the opportunity to be first! I think I should say, “Rise and Shine!” or something but it might be plagiarism.

    I’m prompt when it comes to assignments and promises and usually come in well before the deadline. I’ve had people tell me that it can be annoying that I always have things done early. I have just missed a deadline by one day – that would be my right to claim my DNR job back in 15 days. I’ve been at my new job for 16 days now, so I’m pretty much locked in. Still some tension and I found out my blood pressure is soaring with the eagles right now, but it will all settle down and work out.

    Happy Winter Solstice, Baboons!

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  2. I wasn’t expecting to see my piece until Saturday… so no apologies needed for me!

    Most of my horrible missed deadlines are in my dreams. Waking missed deadlines are too mundane to report!

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      1. nope! We quit going for Christmas a few years ago because the weather was ALWAYS bad. The kids are coming here. 🙂

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  4. Greetings! Well I’ll be hornswaggled! Indeed — of all days to miss a deadline and have dozens of lurkers and faithful baboons confused about the end of the world without a new blog to stimulate our brains and creative juices. I generally make most important deadlines, but only after a mighty spell of procrastination and stressful catching up.

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  5. I have tons of deadlines for paperwork, and I miss many of them quite often. We have to sing with the choir for a Longest Night service at our church tonight, a service for those who find the Holidays less than inspiring. I am inspired, but I know this is a hard time for many. After church I plan to ssettle down for a “long winter’s nap” aided witha little sauvignon blanc.

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  7. Just wanted to share a simple poem for Solstice …

    I heard a bird sing
    In the dark of December
    A magical thing
    And sweet to remember.

    “We are nearer to Spring
    Than we were in September,”
    I heard a bird sing
    In the dark of December.

    — Oliver Herford

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  9. I have been painting sets mere moments before the house opens for a show. I have put wet flats on a stage that actors will be on in under an hour. I applied for graduate school (and was accepted) less than a month before it started – though in fairness, I’m not sure there was a hard and fast deadline on that one. This year I may not get Christmas cards out by 12/25 – so may use my mother’s rationalization (she was a church musician and had no time before 12/25 for such things as Christmas cards) that Christmas only starts on 12/25 – the season runs to 1/6, giving you another 12 days to get cards mailed. So yeah, deadlines are nice for that whooshing sound they make as they go by…

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  10. I remember having my youngest daughter proclaim at she was signing up for fast pitch softball. Her sister two years older said yeah I guess it’s ok to sign her up to even though she had never played so at sign up I asked her if she wanted to play travel or in house. The difference is that in travel you practice more and get to be a better player. So we signed her up and I told her I’d work on batting and throwing and fielding with her and before you knew it try out day was upon us, I went down to the kitchen on Sunday morning to do my usual potato routine and about 9 my daughter came down and asked what time the try outs were. We looked it up and they were 830-1030 so we threw on clothes and sent her in to try out with no prep 1 1/2 hour late. She was. So excited because she made the b team (they only had a&b and needed players) and went on to be a player who enjoyed and was enjoyed by team mates and enjoyed it tremendously. The next year unbelievably I was making potatos on Sunday morning tryout day when I was reminded that last year tryouts were early Sunday morning and we looked it up to discover it happened two years in a row. My children learn many lessons at our house, Some of the best are how not to do it.

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  11. Most of the deadlines I have missed have simply meant there was some sort of fine or fee to pay. Overdue library books, forgotten credit card payments. Oops. Being disorganized gets expensive. But it’s usually not the end of the world. In the case of the credit card payments, they will generally waive the fee if you don’t make a habit of it.

    I had a long discussion with a certain online retailer about an expired gift certificate once. They eventually reinstated it. Probably just because it was easier for them to do that than to keep arguing with me about it. So that was a deadline I managed to get around.

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    1. Never understood the concept of I give you money for something and you have 90 120 365 days to use it or it disappears… Who would agree to that. Give cash

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      1. Rebates, gift cards, and coupons–only in America. I wait in line for many minutes while a clerk and a customer at the grocery store sort through coupons, many of which you can just pick up at the front door. Just charge the price to begin with. Many elderly people get caught in the trick of not getting the right size or flavor or whatever. Stupid every part of it.

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  12. I rarely miss important deadlines, and certainly never work-related ones. But I’m with Anna on the Christmas cards’ deadline. I absolutely refuse to just buy a bunch of cards and sign our names, seems like such a waste of time, and resources. Anyone who gets a Christmas card from me will get a letter that tells them a little about our past year. With Facebook, and being able to keep up with friends, even those who live far away, I see little urgency in writing Christmas cards except to those who aren’t on Facebook. I did miss an important deadline when I failed to be in Chicago on time to catch my flight to Copenhagen on my last visit to Denmark. That cost me a 24 hour delay, cab fare to and from a cheap motel, and $70.00 for a room to sleep in. Could have been worse, six of my fellow passengers on the delayed flight from the Twin Cities missed their charter flight to Greece. They were told it was their responsibility to be in Chicago on time, and they were told that there was nothing anyone could do for them.

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