The best laid plans

...are often, as far as I can tell, totally derailed.  Frequently for good reason.  Today was the day to create a short video with Elizabeth/a.k.a. Lolita/but she called to say that there was a possible pertussis outbreak at her child's school.  This is not good.  I just had my immunization.  Have you?

So rather than a really amateur video about making the Best Quiche in the Entire World, I began investigating The Best Laid Plans to see if there was some wisdom out there to share with you.  Here's what I found:

• The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
  gang aft a-gley.--Robert Burns ("To a Mouse")
  [Popularly misquoted as: The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray, or The best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray.]
• Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.--Barbara G. Harrison
• I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine, Sept. 16, 2003)
• It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.--Howard Duff
• Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.--Marchant
• Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.--D.B. Hudson
• No plan originated by another will be as sympathetically handled as ones own plan.--Conrad H. Lanza (Napoleon and Modern Warfare)
• Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.--Confucius
• Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.--Alan Lakein
• Strategic planning is worthless--unless there is first a strategic vision.--John Naisbitt (Megatrends)
• There is enough time for everything in the course of a day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.--Lord Chesterfield (Letters to His Son, April 14, 1747)
• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.--Napoleon Hill, American Author, Speaker, Motivational Writer
• Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!--Jane Austen

Huh.  I'm going with Jane A. and enjoying the moment.  Quiche coming as soon as epidemic is over.