Scattered Strawberry Summer

All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important (source http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/)

we all heard about public sector spending cuts, many vulnerable people affected, yada yada, but what surprises me at the time during this economic turmoil is that  my local council still manages to find  money on resurfacing roads and pavements that are perfectly fine. Our road was resurfaced  a few weeks ago (yes, at night time, thanks for sleepless night) and now they are doing pavements. there was nothing wrong with them, they were perfectly fine, just like the road, it didn't have potholes or anything. it was fine. way to go to waste  tax payers' money.