When You Really, Really Should Be Doing Something Else…

Welcome to the inaugural offering of the Way Off Task Toy of the Week (WOTTOW)! Our elves (Boogle, Moogle, and Woogle) have been asking their West-Coast cousin (Google) what’s hot out there, and we’ve found Just The Thing for You:

The Excalibur Motorized Pool Lounger!

Okay, I know it’s getting late in the swimming pool play season, but bear with me here. Christmas is fast approaching, you may want to consider putting a couple of these under the tree for next season! And for those of us who are fortunate enough to live in warmer, sunnier climes, we can use them starting now. (You Yankees know we’re fortunate; otherwise you wouldn’t hurry down this way in the wintertime, often several times if you can talk your boss into the travel money.)

You can even use one for ice fishing, after you take your chainsaw and cut a big hole in the lake ice. Saves having to get the boat out, after all.

These rigs are cool! You can relax, or you can get several of these aqueous go-buggies and play bumper cars! (Does that make it bumper pool?) For the Real Man, who normally wouldn’t be caught dead in an everyday pool lounger, the motors make up for the obvious deficiencies. That, and there are holder for Adult Beverages of all sorts.

The only drawback, really, is that it doesn’t come with a model, as pictured. You have to supply your own…

Enjoy Your WOT Today!

There’s a new presence on the World Wide Web, and believe me, the place will never be quite the same again.

Be afraid; be very afraid…

Be afraid that you might miss one of our posts, in fact. We’re going to be more fun than, well, a barrel of monkeys. We’re going to show you all sorts of new and improved ways to stay permanently off-task and behind in your work. In your life, in fact. (Assuming you have one, of course. But since I don’t know you yet, let’s assume you don’t have one and work up from there.)

We’re going to show the latest toys for wasting time and distracting others. I mean, why not share the wealth? Besides, you can’t be the only one in your office who’s Way Off Task (WOT). Simply wouldn’t do, you see; you need to be sure all your co-workers are WOT as well, so you maybe have a chance to survive the next “rightsizing.” Who knows? Get really good at being WOT and you might even get the boss’s job. (Don’t hold your breath, though; he’s got the Peter Principle in his favor; that and garlic breath.)

We won’t be like other blogs and sites. We’ll actually listen to you, read your comments, maybe even respond. We won’t be a mockblog (we claim this word as TM for WOT, by the way); those guys only want to bask in the glow of positive comments and they don’t publish anything that’s critical. We won’t be a sneerblog (aw heck, let’s claim TM on this one too while we’re at it) either, unless sneering makes us feel good at that moment, of course.

We’ll even listen to your ideas about great ways to get and stay WOT, if we’re bored enough. So bring them on! I’m sure they can’t be any worse than some of the concepts my friends have…

Take Pride in Being WOT!