Monthly Archives: August 2006

Business Tidbits

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According to Human Resource Management the following is the breakdown for why people call in sick:

35% ARE sick
21% Have family issues
18% Have personal issues
14% Want a mental health day
12% Think they deserve a break

So a third are sick, a little over a third are dealing with issues, and little less than a third are taking a needed vacation day.

According to a study by CareerJournal.com and the Society for Human Resources…

40% of people have had an office romance AND 42% of those people ended up marrying a coworker

My take?  People need to get out more.  Picking a mate out of your dating pool is just a fact of life.  Having a crappy dating pool is simply proof a not having a life. 

We’re Sorry

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We know that posting has been rather sparse. We've been busy, helping our friends at TeacherSolutions.net get their new site launched.

If you're a teacher, you should check it out.  It makes services like Blackboard look plain crappy – though to be fair, Blackboard was doing a pretty good job of that themselves.

Anyway, we're back and content should be more consistent now.  And after Sept 15th, our obligations to a certain Fortune 50 company will be completed – further freeing us up for telling you how the world should be.

– Mgmt 

Tri 2 Update

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Fit in another run out on the road… I forgot to hit stop on my Garmin between my run and cool down, so I don't have an exact time for this run.

  • Run 2.5 Miles – less than 30 min (299 Cal)  

Tri 2 Update

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A friend asked me how fast a pace I could run for several miles.  I answered that when in shape I could keep about a 7 min/mile pace over a 5k run.  Unfortunately, since I'm not in shape, I fear that I could only keep a 12min/mile pace.

The conversation made me curious about how out of shape I had become with all my other obligations this summer.  Happily I had only fallen to an 11min/mile pace.  Apparently my DDR workouts I had fit in were maintaining at least some cardio fitness.

  • Run 3.0 Miles – 33:17 (423 Cal)