Busy Season Zen: ‘The Bob Ross of Food Reviews’
Today I have a special treat for y’all. With 1.53 million subscribers, Steve1989MREInfo isn’t exactly an underground YouTuber, and I have no doubt some of you are already familiar with this Internet treasure. But for those of you who haven’t yet experienced the joy of a Steve1989 MRE review, get ready to meet your new […]
Busy Season Zen: These Marching Troops
I actually had a dinosaur mukbang planned for today’s Busy Season Zen but then I came across this and, well, considering it’s now March and busy season problems are in full swing, I figured why not. Seems oddly appropriate although I’m not entirely sure why. Volume warning, turn it down or pop in some headphones […]
Busy Season Zen: Time To Pay the Dog Tax
Playing Overwatch recently, I lucked out and managed to solo queue with a decent group of players in Quick Play of all places. I realize this is going to go over your head if you don’t play the game, so for those of you who don’t, let’s say if Quick Play were an accounting firm […]
Busy Season Zen: This Birb Is a Whole Mood
When I spend hours upon hours scrolling through YouTube watching old To Catch a Predator clips looking for something cute in order to bring you the very best for Busy Season Zen, I’m usually looking for something that lasts longer than 60 seconds (insert joke about your ex-boyfriend here). Case in point, the ten hours […]
Busy Season Zen: Meet the Crusher
As has been tradition ’round these parts going back a few years, it’s officially time to break out the Busy Season Zen. If you’re new, Busy Season Zen is a dose of distraction, whether that be cute little ducklings or 10 straight hours of paint drying. You never know what you’re going to get. We […]
Here’s Your Open Thread For the Horrible, No Good October 15 Filing Deadline of 2019
Happy Oct. 15, tax preparers. We hope you make it through today without any last-minute complications or wanting to strangle difficult clients. From what we’ve read and seen on Twitter, this year’s Tax Season 2.0 has been much more of an ass-kicker than in previous years as a result of the new tax law. Anecdotally, […]
Busy Season Zen: Eight Straight Hours of Cat Purring
So here we are, the last Busy Season Zen of busy season. You almost made it, just a little bit more to go. If you’ve made it this far, certainly you can crawl your way to the finish line. For this week’s zen, we thought about doing satisfying factory videos or bears playing in someone’s […]
Busy Season Zen: Bath Time With Sweetheart
Birds can be kinda weird, as pets anyway. I mean, yeah I understand it’s just as weird to collect small predators who shit in a box, but birds can be loud, too clever for their own good, and the damn things tend to outlive everyone. Plus their ancestors are dinosaurs and the last thing you […]
Busy Season Zen: These Baby Frogs
As we crawl toward the end of busy season 2019, it’s important to remember just how unimportant you are in the scheme of things. I mean, out of billions of human beings on the planet you are but one speck, a cog in an invisible machine. Sorry, was that too deep? Let’s get back to […]
Busy Season Zen: Dis Fluff
I really hope y’all are prepared for today’s zen, as it might be the cutest thing you’ll see all week. Well, all day for sure. Hell, you probably haven’t seen anything so cute ever in your life, especially given that you’re wasting so much of it rotting away in a cube farm waiting for the […]
Busy Season Zen: Whatever the Hell Is Happening Here
You know, I debated posting this as a Busy Season Zen as it’s less zen and more… I don’t even know. But I figure at this stage in the game, you could use a break or at least be reminded that there’s a big, weird, wonderful world out there beyond your cubicle. Yeah, let’s go […]
Busy Season Zen: This Car Wrap
Well, it’s Friday so you know what that means, time for another edition of Busy Season Zen. I scoured the Interwebs to bring you a quality video today, one that doesn’t involve baby doggos or kitties or children because sometimes the whole “it’s cute because it’s a baby” thing gets old. It’s a true shame […]
Busy Season Zen: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Remember when you were a kid and you couldn’t wait to grow up so you could eat candy for dinner and stay up as late as you want? And then you actually became an adult and realized you’re so tired from the never-ending rat race that you can’t wait to take a nap and refresh […]
Busy Season Zen: These Hypnotic 3D Animations
Hello and welcome back to another Friday edition of Busy Season Zen. The good news is it’s Friday, the bad news is it’s still busy season. Hopefully you’re taking care of yourself with good nutrition, rest when possible, and a bath or two when the mood strikes. More likely, however, you’re performing your own personal […]
Busy Season Zen: Soap Cutting
I’m not even entirely sure what this ASMR thing is, beyond over-sexualized little kids whispering creepily and people running over Tide Pods. Apparently this is supposed to be satisfying to some people? OK. Back in my day, we just smoked weed and played GTA like normal people to unwind. Kids these days, I swear. Anyhoo… […]
Busy Season Zen: Here’s Ten Straight Hours of Paint Drying
How’s it going? We’re early in the season so I would imagine some of you are still hanging in there. But before you know it, you’re going to be facing vitamin deficiencies and potential nervous breakdowns. Maybe this will help. Need more zen? Here’s all the Busy Season Zen your poor broken heart can handle. […]
Busy Season Zen: Watch This Toddler Make Lasagna
Alright y’all, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Busy Season Zen is back. Those of you who have been around since the good ole days will recognize it as a weekly feature that has absolutely nothing to do with accounting and everything to do with giving you a break […]
Busy Season Zen: Celebrate April 15th with Some Maniacal Laughter
Yes, your busy season may have ended weeks ago but April 15th is still an important date for many accountants. To reach this day with your sanity intact is no small feat so why not enjoy your survival with some joyful lunacy? Here is 6 minutes of cinematic maniacal laughter that should help you feel […]
Busy Season Zen: Ten Hours of Soothing Spring Showers
April showers bring May flowers, the saying goes. Of course, it also can bring tornadoes and all sorts of severe weather that will send your furry friends (and maybe you) running under the bed. However, the sound of rain falling and rolling thunder does give many people a sense of peace. Ten hours of it will get […]
Busy Season Zen: Every ‘Dude’ From The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski is a cinematic masterpiece. Fact. Other films by Ethan and Joel Coen have been given awards but none of them will ever achieve the legendary cult following like TBL. It inspired a multi-city festival. Before there was "U mad, bro?" there was, "Calmer than you are." It spawned a philosophy for crying out loud. […]
Busy Season Zen: The Swish Montage
March Madness begins this week, so it seems appropriate that today's BSZ have a basketball theme. Although I'm not much of a basketball fan these days, I do enjoy the sound a ball makes when it goes through hoop in a perfect swish. Luckily, there I found a 2-minute montage of perfect (and some not […]
Busy Season Zen: The Twinkie Factory
There's something cathartic about watching confections silently go through their manufacturing process. Or maybe it's frightening? Or frighteningly cathartic? Clearly, these sorts of things are important to you all; hopefully it gives you some peace today. [YouTube via r/factoryporn]
Busy Season Zen: Guinea Pigs Playing Basketball
Watching guinea pigs play basketball is infinitely better than watching any NBA game for several reasons. Among them: 1) Guinea pigs are adorable; 2) Quality of play; 3) No timeouts, therefore, no needless stalling until the end of the game; 4) Better music than you'll hear at any arena; 5) No Kobe Bryant.
Busy Season Zen: Classical Car Crushing
A couple of years ago, Car and Driver ran a 5-episode series on its YouTube channel called The Destruction Hour. As you might expect, it's just 60 minutes of cars being crushed at a junkyard. They do manage to get through quite a number of cars in one hour, however. It's a little tedious to […]
#BusySeasonZen: The Train Snowblower
Winter has not been kind. And with Punxsutawney Phil predicting 6 more weeks of chilling terror, we can only hope for the best. The following video is from Romania in 2012 and it shows just how slow progress can be when winter does its worst. The description says that the snowblower actually derailed a couple […]
Busy Season Zen: The Can Opener Bridge
We're going to take a different approach to Busy Season Zen today, as it's getting to that point where cute ducklings and cuddly kittens may not be doing it for you. Perhaps you've seen this video making the rounds, and if so forgive me. Actually no, don't, I don't care. 11foot8 is a site that […]
Busy Season Zen: Spend Three Hours on This California Beach
There's an adorable video going around of a kitten meeting some ducklings but we just did a duckling video so we'll be skipping that one this week. What we do have is 3 whole hours of ocean. No cute puppies, no sound effects, no comments. Just ocean. Sweet, calming, beautiful ocean. Enjoy.
Busy Season Zen: This Hamster Looks a Lot Like You at Team Lunch
This busy season, you're probably going to be eating a lot of pizza. So much so that by the time busy season is over, you'll probably have a Walter White moment if anyone dares show you one more pizza. Since it's still early in the game, you'll probably find this little hamster eating a little […]
Busy Season Zen: Ducklings Playing in a Small Pool
With tax season officially upon us, you're going to need this now more than ever. Relax, hit play, and enjoy. Repeat as needed.
Busy Season Zen: Be a Happy Little Tree
While we were diligently combing through YouTube today, we realized that YouTube is kind of a sick place. Maybe it's our viewing habits but how difficult can it be to find a cute, soothing video to chase the busy season blues away? Enter Bob Ross. Yes, that Bob Ross. We should have probably saved this […]
Busy Season Zen: The National Zoo’s Baby Panda Playing in DC Snow
Last year, we tried to ease your busy season blues with cute, mind-numbing videos every Wednesday in a feature we called Busy Season Zen. We're getting an early start on it this year even though your agony hasn't quite started because all of us could use a distraction right about now. Feel free to bookmark […]
Busy Season Zen: Let’s Wrap This With a Little Dance
With Tax Day come and gone, we're wrapping Busy Season Zen for now. Yeah yeah, not all of you are in tax, and those of you that are still have extensions and amended returns and all that… we get it. If you guys want a weekly video of puppies or kittens or hot lava eating […]
Busy Season Zen: Cute Armadillo Bathtime or 3 Hour Norwegian Train Ride?
Sometimes you need more than just a cute, weird animal. So for this week's edition of Busy Season Zen, we're giving you not one but TWO video escapes. First, the armadillo. You may think it looks like a rat in armor but I think it's adorable. If that wasn't enough for you, maybe you'd like […]
Busy Season Zen: You Need This Fat Cat Exercising
You may have seen this one already as it's been around for a few years but just in case, we're sharing it because some of you are in the home stretch and need something not quite as strong as Xanax but stronger than some regular old cute kittens. Check it out. Warning: sound, and you […]
Busy Season Zen: Let’s Watch This Guy Shoot Easter Candy For No Reason
With Easter nearly upon us (for those of you still grinding away, that's the holiday where you might be able to lug a ham sandwich to the office and some HR airhead will leave a single Cadbury creme egg on your desk), this seems a fitting Busy Season Zen entry for this week. Let's see […]
Busy Season Zen: What Happens When a Can of Coke Meets Hot Lava?
Welcome back to Wednesday, which means yet another edition of Busy Season Zen. If you're having a particularly rough day, you can find past Busy Season Zen installments in the archive filled with more cuddly and cute than you can handle. This week, we're changing things up a little bit because why not? Let's see […]
Busy Season Zen: Check Out This Pokemon Thingy Getting His Mud On
It's Wednesday, which means it's time for another installment of Busy Season Zen. How's everyone doing? Terrible, you say? Cool, me too. YouTube has been a bit wonky all morning (GET IT TOGETHER, GOOGLE) but we finally coaxed an embed code out of them for your viewing pleasure — if you can't see the video, […]
Busy Season Zen: Get Lost in This Milky Way Time Lapse
Lest you all get too comfortable with baby animals, we're switching things up a bit today. This one is a little long but also a lot soothing; just the thing to carry you away to another place in the midst of your busy day. Enjoy.
Busy Season Zen: An Awkward Moment With a Wild Animal
Welcome back to Busy Season Zen, your weekly break from the madness. If you need a little extra zen in your life, feel free to swing by to say hello to the happy sea otter, playful pandas, clumsy penguins, and/or carrot-crunching bunnies. We've pretty much covered baby animals so we figured we'd do something a […]
Busy Season Zen: These Bunnies are Eating Healthier Than You
Try not to squee audibly, you might frighten your coworkers.
Busy Season Zen: Watch Your Step!
Welcome back to Busy Season Zen, our weekly break from the monotony of your miserable life. I swore after I fell on ice and broke my face a weeks back that I would never indulge in videos of people falling ever again because it most certainly wasn't funny when it happened to me (although I […]
Busy Season Zen: Pandas Playing
Even the most bitter, angry individual can't help but smile at the sight of little pandas having fun on a slide, even if this was potentially done for the entertainment of tourists while the pandas live out a life in captivity. Forget I said that, just watch. Aww. If you have a Busy Season Zen […]
Busy Season Zen: Let Your Cares Float Away With This Sea Otter Pup
I have no idea what took us so long but effective today, we're going to run a weekly Busy Season Zen moment for you to forget about your troubles and gently fade into a moment outside of yourself where there is no work, no annoying guy loudly yapping a few cubes down, no PCAOB inspectors, […]