you know what sucks?
1. Being all done with my work for the week by midday.
2. Eating lunch and having nothing to do, but having to keep up the appearance of actually doing work, rather than actually going home or doing some last-minute Christmas shopping before the rush.
3. Having a friend offer to play Ticket to Ride online with you, but you have to decline because the charade must be maintained at all costs.
4. Nobody else seems to be working either. Even my manager, who seems to be looking at URLs for his hobby -- racing cars.
5. End-of-year reviews are coming in January, so the charade has to be maintained to the nth degree these days.
(By the way, the online version of TtR is pretty sweet as far as online versions go. You owe it to yourself to check it out and play, either against bots or the thousands of Germans that seem to frequent the site.)