The Daily Procrastinator

Greetings, procrastinators! Another beautiful Spring week has come and gone. I know you sit at your desk during the work day and wish you could be outside enjoying the season. Unfortuantly, odds are that your boss would frown upon that idea. There’s good news, though! You can access The Daily Procrastinator right there in your workspace! It’s not the same as sitting outside in the Spring weather, but it beats working…

Let’s look back at this week’s posts, one writer at a time, and make sure you didn’t miss a thing.

TallGirl led the team in posts this week. She began the week with a fond farewell to Harry Kalas, longtime voice of the Philadelphia Phillies. She continued by posting a photograph that simultaneously celebrates Easter and borderline insanity. In the following days, TallGirl posted a thought on (supposedly) discounted footwear and a stupefying bit of Octomom news. She wrapped up her week as a Procrastinator with a rumination on the effects the economic downturn is having on long-standing American businesses.

"You're going to procrastinate? In THAT outfit?"

Magnus, the Procrastinator responsible for marketing, techinical expertise, and all things geek-related, is normally pretty quiet, but he spoke up twice this week. First, he announced the iPhone-specific version of The Daily Procrastinator. A few days later, he posted a brief tutorial on the use of Real Simple Syndication (RSS) to make information bring itself to you, instead of spending your valuable time searching for it. I had no idea this service existed. It’s genius!

Finally, BigRedPoet threw his hat into the proverbial ring twice this week. First, he posted a celebration of the arrival of crawfish season and outdoor concerts in the American south. Later, BRP provided a list of five links to help the procrastinators of the world wile away a few valuable hours of work time. Click them. Trust me.

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As you’ve probably noticed, my fellow procrastinators, this is one of my favorite times of year. First, April brings the return of baseball. Second, and just as importantly, April signals the beginning of crawfish season. Soon, herds of Southerners will be gathered around boiling pots of crawfish with cold bottles of beer in hand, waiting to indulge in on of life’s finest culinary delicacies.

They look tasty, don't they?

If you’ve never eaten crawfish, I don’t really know how to explain it without sounding somewhat barbaric and violent. Basically, once they’re boiled with some good, hot spices, you bust them in half, suck the juices out of the front half, discard it, then crack open the tail end and eat the delicious morsel of meat you find inside. If you’ve got particularly big crawfish, you can sometimes get little bits of meat out of the claws, too. It’s a lot of work for for a few small niblets of seafood, but it’s worth every moment.

Of course, crawfish are just the main course. The average pot of crawfish also contains new potatoes, half-ears of corn, and chunks of sausage. Some enterprising cooks toss in mushrooms, as well. Taken together, it’s a meal fit for a king…a messy, hungry king.

Next weekend, the Texas Crawfish and Music Festival will be held in Spring, TX. One of my favorite musicians, Bob Schneider, is set to close the main stage on Friday night. Picture the scene: live music on multiple stages, crawfish sold by the pound at little stands everywhere you turn, frosty beverages enjoyed en masse. It’s safe to say that I’m more than a little excited. If you happen to be near Spring, Texas next weekend, drop by the festival. I’ll buy you a meal you won’t soon forget.