Surveys about workplace goofing off are under-represented

Cleary these studies that say people blow off 1-2 hours every day haven't ever talked to advertising people. Even my brother commented yesterday that he can't figure out how it works in marketing and advertising b/c it seems like we're always bored or slow. Mostly the work is cyclical but when planning sessions are over and /or there's a recession - it's thumb twiddling time for all!

It seems i'm a bad dog mom today. i totally forgot to relay Gracie's adventures with the Dog Communicator. Mucho thanks to Leah for writing about this and thus triggering my memory. So the Dog Communicator...she didn't show up. The website said she'd be there from 11-5, and Lee also callled to try and make an appt. She's not much of a communicator b/c she never called back. After severe disappointment, compounded by the fact that for the first time ever Gracie wasn't fawned over when she walked into a pet store; they all went for Rigley. Gracie seemed very confused why everyone bypassed her for a 3 month old Lab. To her, he's just a little boy with a mighty big crush on her. It's okay, though. She made up for it by trying to steal his bone later in the day.

After a few dog purchases, Leelee, Rigs, Gracie and I rambled over to Old Chicago where they not only opened the patio for us, they let us have the dogs out there. Talk about exhaustion! These two pups are more crazy than a pair of toddlers who just learned how to walk. They ran back and forth all over the patio for at least 45 minutes. Here's a short example:

Put water dish down on ground. Gracie comes over for a drink. Then Rigs squeezes in. Then Rigs grabs the water dish as his new toy. We pick the water dish up. Give the kids, a squeaky bone - they wrestle. Lee gives Rigs a busybone; Gracie steals it. I give the bone back to Rigs adn give Gracie the squeaky bone. She steals the busybone back. On and on and on.

The dogs did have a very fun time wrestling, though, and it should be very interesting to see what happens next time they get together as Rigs will be close if not the same weight as Gracie.