I believe I have identified my most annoying quality. Given that my teenage daughter tells me I am extremely annoying, isolating this one quality was as scientifically challenging — and important — as, say, isolating the gene that causes heart disease.

The most annoying quality among many annoying Blogenberg qualities is my habit of telling people how early I arrive at the office. It’s not that I have a martyr complex — such foolish psychodrama would be disrespecting the degree to which I suffer for the people I care about. It’s that working long hours at my business is such a major part of my self-concept that I have to make sure that anybody — and that’s anybody, from the guy who works at the coffee shop to important clients — who knows I may be leaving before 5 or 6 pm is made aware that I started my day at 6:30 in the morning (5:50 this morning, actually).

It’s an annoying habit, without a doubt. But think of it this way: when your alarm clock goes off in the morning, I’m already at work being annoying.

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