GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: An Hour in a Weekday Evening

There are few things at which I can truly say I’m the best in the world. But one of them is being bad at multitasking. I am the world’s best, bad multitasker. And that, dear readers, is why I need your help. Can you slot the following tasks into exactly 60 minutes? Of course, there […]
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There are few things at which I can truly say I'm the best in the world. But one of them is being bad at multitasking. I am the world's best, bad multitasker. And that, dear readers, is why I need your help. Can you slot the following tasks into exactly 60 minutes?

Of course, there are some rules:

• Exactly two tasks may be accomplished simultaneously.

• You may not eat dinner (or feed it to your kids) until you've cooked it, and cannot do dishes until everyone's eaten.

• You must shovel food into both children at the same time.

• You may not have "kids in the tub" until you "wrangle kids into tub"

Here are your tasks and the time needed to accomplish them (in minutes):

15 -- Cook dinner

10 -- Shovel food into child #1

10 -- Shovel food into child #2

7 -- Eat dinner

10 -- Do dishes

5 -- Wrangle kids into tub

7 -- Kids in tub

3 -- Conversation with wife about things of huge life importance

2 -- Drink one nightly beer

9 -- Read Shouts & Murmurs and cartoon caption contest sections of the New Yorker

6 -- General cleaning

8 -- Aimless fretting

5 -- Fretting about work

5 -- Fretting about money

4 -- Fretting about old dog

7 -- Packing school lunches

5 -- Surfing GeekDad

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