Does your wife/husband keep you waiting?

Why not use that time productively?

"I made my fifth cigar-box guitar this way, in twenty-minute increments.  I was reminded of the seventeenth-century French chancellor Henri François d'Aguessea, who wrote a best-selling, three-volume book ten minutes at a time while waiting for his habitually late wife to join him at the dinner table."

An interesting item extracted from Mark Frauenfelder's Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World.