Missing a posting

Isaac misses a posting.

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Isaac: So I wake up at 12:50 AM, crashed over the keyboard, and realize I didn’t post a blog entry before midnight.

Eric: And you can’t backdate a blog posting.

Isaac: There may be a way but I don’t know it. I prefer to use the midnight cutoff as a kind of self discipline to write something every day.

Eric: Crashing at the computer is a good reason to skip isn’t it?

Isaac: I only skip if I’m nowhere near a computer or I’ve been called to the bedside of someone expiring. Anyway, I go to bed furious because I fell asleep before I’d posted.

Eric: Sad.

Isaac: But then this morning I turn on the computer and find, by crikey, there’s yesterday’s blogpost. 11:34 PM. I must have posted then crashed for an hour.

Eric: No recollection?

Isaac: Not the faintest. None at all.

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Cinderella

I suffer from being a kind of Cinderella. You know the story.

I know the story. What's your point?

Well, I must publish the daily blog posting every day before midnight.

Can't you rejig the timing?

That can be done but I'd rather not.

Can be done but you'd rather not? Whatever do you mean?

If I fiddle with timing I lose my deadline. I need deadlines. I publish my daily blog before midnight so I accumulate a chapter a day.

I understand. You don't have deadline, you put it off, put it off....

Put it off. And it never gets published.

So you have this Cinderella syndrome?

No, no. Not Cinderella syndrome. Totally different. For the Cinderella syndrome, look here.
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