The cobbler’s son

There's an old saying The cobbler's son has no shoes." It's generally taken to mean that we can neglect to do for ourselves something we do for other people.

I've been writing a few scripts for my personal use, things I've long intended to do but only recently got around to doing.

I said something about this and someone pointed out that what I said rhymed. With a little editing I turned this into a little couplet:

The cobbler's son is getting some shoes:
Writing some scripts for myself to use.

I won't be blogging about my scripts because they're not interesting. As I commented here, really useful productivity tools are not interesting to a wide audience precisely because they're so specialized.

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