{"id":336,"date":"2024-12-09T18:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2025-01-14T20:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T20:04:41","slug":"christmas-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s nothing like Christmas to force the issue of what gift to buy someone.&nbsp;&nbsp; The deadline is set and it has been for some time.  But now is the time to act to avoid a procrastrophe like a prochrasmas.&nbsp; I mean, you missed Black Friday and slept through Cyber Monday and snoozed on Giving Tuesday.&nbsp; What do you expect?&nbsp; Christmas is coming!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are like the procrastinating masses, waiting until the last moment to buy that special person that perfect gift, passing on many suboptimal gifts as too firm or too soft, too hot or too cold, you wake up on Christmas Day empty handed.\u00a0 For you, the perfect gift buyer, I offer a solution\u2026in the form of my new book <strong>Procrastination for Profit<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Procrastination-Profit-Contrarian-Viewpoint-Productivity\/dp\/B0DJPMB7H1\">available in paperback on Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s your secret Santa at work or your adult child\u2019s stocking stuffer, $14.99 is cheap and let\u2019s face it, they all could use it!\u00a0 They probably won\u2019t even buy you a gift so why spend 25 or 50 bucks on them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The economics of buying 10 copies of this book and giving them out as gifts is undeniable.&nbsp; I mean, you can&#8217;t have procrastinomics without economics.  The only problem is that the gift is too cheap, you cheapskate.&nbsp; Maybe no one will notice the price but slip in a fiver for the people you like, just in case.&nbsp; Tell them to bring the book and that fiver to the book signing and I\u2019ll turn it into a signed first edition (aka gold).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, the first book signing is Tuesday, December 17<sup>th<\/sup> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sidecarsupperclub.com\/\">Sidecar Supper Club in Batavia<\/a> from 6 to 8pm.&nbsp; I\u2019ll be there to spin some yarns and sign some books.&nbsp; Books are $20 at the event and supplies are limited so buy yours on Amazon (only $14.99) and bring it along.&nbsp; If you\u2019ve never been, Sidecar is the coolest little pub with lot\u2019s going on including a sweet beer garden with live music all summer, Bluegrass every Sunday evening all year &#8217;round and the most competitive trivia contest in the west suburbs every Thursday, but the craziest thing is the Batavia Lyceum Association lectures on occasional Monday nights where local intellectuals gather to nerd out on obscure history and strange facts.&nbsp; Also, the food is fantastic, and the beer selection is vast. 5 stars!  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DJPMB7H1?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/procrastinomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PforP_FrontCover_Small.jpg?resize=132%2C204&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75 has-custom-font-size has-medium-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Procrastination-Profit-Contrarian-Viewpoint-Productivity\/dp\/B0DJPMB7H1\" style=\"border-radius:11px\">buy the book on amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing like Christmas to force the issue of what gift to buy someone.&nbsp;&nbsp; The deadline is set and it has been for some time. But now is the time to act to avoid a procrastrophe like a prochrasmas.&nbsp; I mean, you missed Black Friday&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/?p=336\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas is Coming<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[66,55,67],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procrastdisabler","tag-book","tag-christmas","tag-deadlines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/procrastinomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutterstock_38304-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}