halconero Posted October 20, 2013 Posted October 20, 2013 I'm coming on here for the sole reason to announce my temporary procrastination of two papers. 1) A summary of the 12 current hypothesis of how human ancestors developed bipedalism and an argument on which provides the most evidence in its favour. 2) How Celsus (2nd Century critic of Christianity) would view Mark's portrayal of Jesus Christ. Thank you MD&D for giving me an area in which to squander precious hours of work and sleep. From the bottom of my heart this procrastinator thanks you. How does/has everyone else here use(d) this magnificent forum to avoid more pressing tasks? 3
Damien the Leper Posted October 20, 2013 Posted October 20, 2013 The top ten reasons to procrastinate: 1. 1
Stargazer Posted October 25, 2013 Posted October 25, 2013 Ah, the Big P. I'm a member of that club. It has cost me much over the years. Just recently it cost me several thousand dollars. I am what amounts to a fledgling real estate investor. I'm not actually investing, yet, because I have no money to speak of, but I am acquainted with a number of individuals and firms who buy distressed homes, renovate them, and sell them at a profit. There was this foreclosed home that came on the market in a neighborhood I know well, and the bank eventually dropped the price down to 134K. I was waiting for them to bring it lower, but for several months the home just sat there at that price. I had a tour through it at one point, it looked like it would cost about 50k to fix, but it was a big house (5 BR, 3 BA, 2000+ sqft) and my market analysis led me to estimate it would be worth about $300k once it was fixed up. Another point of interest is that in my area, it is actually harder to sell $150K houses than $200K houses. I figured this would go quick once fixed up. So, I kept track of it, thinking that I probably ought to put in an offer -- meeting their asking price, because, I thought, any one of the people I essentially shop for would probably love to have the place for fixing and flipping. They all operate mainly out of town, but are still interested in my neck of the woods, so I figured they wouldn't see it, having fish to fry closer to their regular stomping grounds. Procrastinate. Procrastinate some more. And still more. Suddenly I get this email from the monitoring service I use, someone has put in an offer on the house. I wait anxiously, hoping the deal will fall through. Nope. It goes through, and sells for the asking price. I give it a few weeks for the county to make the record public, and who do you think has bought it? That's right, one of the regular fix-and-flippers who told me to keep her in mind when I find good properties!. Her company takes 3 months to fix the place up (and it looks beautiful, compared to its bad condition before), and then they put it on the market. It gets an offer in two weeks, and It is final three weeks after that -- for $290K !!!! The only satisfaction I get out of this is that my market analysis was almost spot on. If it cost her 50K to fix it, her profit was $106K. If I had done what I should have done, which is lock the property up with an offer, I could have sold the contract to buy the place for a good $10K no problem at all. The property sat in plain sight for MONTHS while I dithered. Procrastinated. Here's the house: http://www.redfin.com/WA/Olympia/446-Thunderbird-Ct-SE-98503/home/15690370 It used to be this awful brick red color, the garage door was badly messed up, it had blue tarps on the roof to control the leaks, and was very dreary. Now look at it. I could just cry. I watched the place for a freaking YEAR without taking any action. Please don't anyone try to tell me that its a bad market in real estate right now, because I know people who are making money hand over fist fixing up distressed houses and foreclosed homes. As a procrastinator, however, I am not one of them.
3DOP Posted October 25, 2013 Posted October 25, 2013 Hi halconero... I don't know how much of this is exaggeration, but I am afraid that I lose considerable contact with the world around me when I am on this board. Reportedly, I ignore real world people while talking/whispering aloud and making faces and gestures at the monitor/words on the screen, even though my body language is completely uncommunicable. I don't deny the charges. It is plausible. I don't know if this is strict procrastination, but I know I have on some occasions compromised what is supposed to be cooking on the barbecue to edit or amend a post. The kids are gone now so I don't get it as much as I used to. But because of my time here, they used to rag on me when we would pass an LDS church (stake?), saying "There's Daddy's church." 3DOP 2
strappinglad Posted October 25, 2013 Posted October 25, 2013 Howard Hughes was a world class procrastinator when it came to business deals. He made it work for him. I don't recommend the rest of his lifestyle ,however.
Calm Posted October 25, 2013 Posted October 25, 2013 Finally, the perfect excuse...I have needed this for decades. My gratitude, urroner.
Calm Posted October 25, 2013 Posted October 25, 2013 (edited) I don't know if this is strict procrastination, but I know I have on some occasions compromised what is supposed to be cooking on the barbecue to edit or amend a post. I've eaten a lot of burnt hashbrowns and other stuff due to the board over the years....just taking that one more minute.... Can't bring myself to waste the food if it's at all edible, my grandmother was way too fond of the "hungry children in Ethiopia' tactic. My other "P" issue is patience and anything that takes more than a minute or so to cook drives me to the computer to pass the time...which goes into too much time and burnt food....sigh. Edited October 25, 2013 by calmoriah
Garden Girl Posted October 25, 2013 Posted October 25, 2013 Hi halconero... The kids are gone now so I don't get it as much as I used to. But because of my time here, they used to rag on me when we would pass an LDS church (stake?), saying "There's Daddy's church." 3DOP That is so funny, 3DOP.... GG 1
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