This groups will surely know

"There's a Hole in the Bucket" - referring to the song?

Gridlock.

A thread on this group awhile ago called it "shipwright's syndrome", which I have used since to describe this problematic and familiar situation.

In a similar vein, my son recently accused me of being the curator of the Museum of Unfinished Projects...

Chain distraction? Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Sequential Vortex?

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:46:58 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, "Emmo" quickly quoth:

(topposting corrected)

I'm sure glad it's not just me who's suffering from this syndrome. I find that I can't get a project going because I can't find the tools which are hiding under twenty unfinished projects.

Unrequited hobbying?

It's a good thing he hasn't seen my shop, too. We'd be co-curators.

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Sometimes called "yak shaving" (because the next thing you know, you'll be out in the back yard shaving a yak).

A friend calls this a "Cascading Upgrade".

In his case, He buys a new computer game.

Said game requires a hotter video card.

Hotter video card won't work with current motherboard.

New motherboard won't work with current CPU, Memory, and power supply, and won't fit in current case.

Pretty soon he's got 5 or 6 hundred into a new machine, so he can play his (now 2 month old) $40 game.

Thank God - I thought I was the only one who suffered from this. Being a Leftie and thus possessed of intellectual curiousity and the skills of logical analysis...(and NO CATS) I have worked this out.

Its called PROCRASTINATION. Pure and simple. Every one of the thing you (mutually) describe is something that should, in its own right, have been done ages ago. We dont - we KNOW what needs to be done, its not a challenge, or enjoyable, its just plain ordinary boring work. So we cant be bothered cause theres always something more interesting to do.

Then we beat ourselves up because we havent done it. We seek solace in finding like minded individuals. We argue about politics on the internet to avoid doing these jobs. If you are a brain dead Right Winger who is incapable of independent thought, you will most proably have cats who will direct you what to do for their benefit, so further delaying you.

So there. Now you know.

Andrew VK3BFA.

PS - it wont change anything, but now you know.

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:45:51 -0000, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@shell.core.com (Ron Bean) quickly quoth:

Bwahahahaha! I love it!

Danke.

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surftom wrote in article ...

I don't know if there is a formal name for it, but we appear to share the same house builder/contractor.

Absolutely nothing I do on my house involves only the original task......

My wife would call it "the Ignoramus syndrome".

In IT, that's called "cascading dependancies". Also called "SNAFU".

--Ah. That one. When folks ask me what I'm doing in my shop I say I have to make a thing to make a thing to make a thing.

For the stuff, like that guy?

Dave "let's play vague...the game where you win stuff..." Hinz

Nested Multitasking

Nope... It's called "'Liza"; as in: "There's a HOLE in the bucket, dear 'Liza, dear 'Liza; a HOLE in the bucket, dear 'Liza, a HOLE!"

(Some of you know the rest of the words...)

LLoyd

Where shall I stick it, dear' Liza, dear 'Liza?

Trust me... You DON'T want me to answer that one, darling. :)

Any hints on how to have this technique work on demand, rather than at the worst possible time?

I always called it "you might as well" syndrome. It comes up especially clearly with plumbing...You go to replace a fitting and find that the fitting it was connected to needs replacing...and the one that is connected to....

Koz