10. Eat an entire bag of Doritos while watching Family Ties.

11. Make something out of wicker.

12. Invent a stupid human trick for future presentation on Late Night with David Letterman.

13. Flatten the bottom half of your toothpaste tube--just like it says on the back of the box--so you get the maximum amount of paste per tube. After all, at nearly $1.50 a shot, toothpaste is really expensive. You wouldn't want to be wasteful, especially when there are children in Africa starving for extra toothpaste.

14. Count the money in your wallet. Then arrange your bills so that you always have the best "dollar-bill-poker" available for easy use.

15. Rearrange your closet so that all your pants are on brown hangers, all your oxford shirts are on blue hangers and all your sport shirts are red hangers. Then stack your sweaters by color and the type of wool (or, God forbid, acrylic) they are made of.

16. Count the stiches on a baseball.

17. Defrost your refrigerator.

18. Check to see that you have enough quarters for your upcoming laundry. Arrange the quarters in a three-by four configuration, making sure that every alternate quarter is tails up.

19. Open the nearest book of matches and make sure that all the matches are facing the same way. A large box of wooden kitchen safety matches can provide hours of entertainment.

20. Write a column about the 20 best things to do while avoiding work.