Practice for Having a Child

We've got guys in the house again. By which I mean, for the past few days Carlos' crew has been back to do some drywalling and other wall- and door-making activities which we could do ourselves, but half as well and much, much more slowly.

The thing is, when there are guys in the house, our lives are a string of ramifying interruptions. We start out on a task innocently enough, which gets interrupted by a second task of higher priority. The second task gets interrupted by a full-on emergency, which we follow through until we find out it's not an emergency and not even time-sensitive. Right about that moment we get interrupted by a fourth task, which IS time-sensitive, and requires a trip to Lowe's. Which seems great, because we needed to go to Lowe's for task #1 anyway, except we only dimly remember what task #1 was. At Lowe's we find what we need for task #1, but the thing we need for task #4 requires us to find a specialty vendor because they don't have it at Lowe's. Of course, midway through task #4, we are interrupted by task #5. Which requires us to go back to Lowe's. It is 5pm before we complete anything at all, and that only partially.

I figure this is good practice for having a child.