[Lizard]

1) We can do a day's work.
2) Or we can do 90% of a day's work(or less), and also write up what we did.
3) Or we can do no work for a day and build a script that will automatically tell you what we did. And then do no work for another day while we're testing it...

The "message of the day" is our attempt to compromise between states 1 and 2 and avoid getting so tired of writing release notes that we fall into state 3.