Company Breaks & Lunches

I do not think I am alone when it comes to the mentality that going to the bathroom during working hours should not count against break time or time allotted for lunch. Am I wrong?

If I'm pounding away at the keyboard, and I get the urge to use the bathroom, do I have to use my allotted break time to placate my bodily functions? Or can I get up and go (to go) and not worry about that time at all? What if I had other plans for my 15 minutes of "me" time? What if I wanted to get some personal banking done? What if I wanted to iPod my way through today's podcasts during my break? Hmmm... I wonder.

Things like having to go the bathroom, or drying off after being caught in a rainstorm shouldn't count against our break time or our lunch time. What do you think?

Escaped Monkey Shoots Cop's Foot

With all the shenanigans (I had to look that one up!) of our local news dry spell, I thought mixing up recent headlines would make for more interesting news. Do you have any of your own?

Recently, they found "Oops" the escaped monkey from Mill Mt. Zoo. And just yesterday, a police officer from Vinton was shot in the foot by someone he pulled over. So I figured, why not put both of those stories together? Thus my headline.

July 11 Update

Here's what's been happening in my little world:

1. I'm trying to enroll with the Art Institute Online so I can start working on my bachelor's degree for Interactive Media Design.

2. The transition from pharmacy prescriptions to mail-order medicines has not been an easy one - I left myself without meds for about a week as I tried to make the transition, and it really messed me up. Things are better now, though. I'm slowly returning to my old self, and feeling much better. There are definitely some benefits to mail-order meds.

3. I'm the scribe for our local camera club, and it's not an easy task. Keeping notes, sending emails and other scribe stuff is easy - it's participation and interaction that sucks. No wonder our last scribe resigned. I don't blame him.

More to come!