juggling one ball too many

If this were a law firm, I'd be on a 3000+ hour pace. Somehow between the work, the cleaning up, the trips to the library, dropping people off and picking them up, and everything else, I forgot to buy an important birthday present.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Efficiency, productivity . . . they come at a price, and I just got dinged. It's time to rethink this game.