Re: Goofing off on the job?

[Rick Lippincott <RJLIPPINCOTT -at- DELPHI -dot- COM>]

To answer your first question, I subscribed to this list through my "home"
e-mail address.  I had been composing answers at home, then posting them
from work in order to save a few cents on connect charges, but some problems
with the mail server at work drove me to simply read, review, and respond
while at home.  Solves that problem.

About the concentration issue:  I've just completed an ergonomics training
course at work, and they stress the need to take breaks from the computer.
Get up, walk around, focus on something else for a while.  Our building has
a nice set of glass walls, with a view of the nearby hills There is a small
airport right next to us, the final approach lane passes directly over our
building. A few times every hour, I get up and stretch, watch the leaves
change color, watch the student pilots line up on the runway while
struggling to keep an aging Beechcraft Bonanza out of our parking lot....

Try drinking a lot of fluids.  Coffee, soft drinks, even water.  In addition
to keeping you refreshed, taking fluids in means, of course, that later the
fluids have to go -out-.  There's another quick break, eyes off the screen
and a quick walk to another part of the building.

These are just some ideas off the top of my head.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to wash the airplane tire tracks off the
roof of my car.

Rick Lippincott
rjlippincott -at- delphi -dot- com