Another obvious reference.
If I'm wasting my time on menial tasks it makes sense to (again) link to a favorite passage in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth (actually, twice), in which Milo, Tock and the Humbug are distracted from their quest by the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs. Was my quest really "worthless"? After all, I learned something interesting, and honestly enjoyed the search (I even enlisted Gemini to help out a bit, and it did). Of course it would have been more enjoyable had I stumbled onto what I was looking for while involved in something else - in the way that Pooh stumbled onto Eeyore's tail, another favorite passage. But not all quests have happy endings.
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