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Amazing Race!
So, one of the things my company does is that every year they have a National Employee Health and Fitness week. As the name implies, this is apparently some sort of national thing, though I’ve never seen it done at any other company and everyone that I tell it to thinks it’s just one of…
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Health Miles step challenge
So, I’ve been in this Health Miles program at work for almost a year now. Click the link where I explain it more but basically they pay you for being healthy and walking. So for the month of April the company has been doing a step challenge. Basically whoever takes the most steps wins. Plus,…
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Holiday song / carol quiz
This is a quiz that I came up with as something to pass the time while we waited for people to arrive at our recent work gift exchange party. So I thought I would pass it on to you guys to see how you do. Below you will find the first lines of 25 holiday…
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One of "those" work days
Yes, yes, the other day I had one of those work days that Carolyn enjoys so much. You know, where I have to leave the office at noon and go to a park and eat pizza and play games all day. In fact, I believe she even had a little comment about this past one.…
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Bike ride home
So I rode my bike home yesterday. Savvy TPMTHDM readers may have noticed the exercise widget over to the side of the blog finally being updated (for the first time since early May). After just being very exhausted from working non-stop on 2 houses for weeks / months, I gradually just got lazy with the…
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Virgin HealthMiles
So last week, my company started this new health initiative called Virgin HealthMiles. It’s apparently run at least somewhat in conjunction with our health insurer. Anyone else ever heard of this? The basic idea is that you wear this special pedometer that tracks the number of steps that you do in a given day. You…
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Competitiveness
So I occasionally get labeled as “competitive”. This happens often at work where we have various things going on. I can kind of agree with it, but I’ve never really thought of myself as overly competitive. This past week though, I realized that there are 2 kinds of competitiveness. I usually think of someone that…
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I will not GIVE you the satisfaction
So a friend of ours was talking to Carolyn the other day. She was telling us a story from a few years ago. Apparently she got upset that she was the only one doing the dishes and that her husband never did them. So one day she decided to go “on strike” (i.e. not wash…
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Book of Mormon at work
So a few months ago I gave a Book of Mormon to a guy at work. Actually I gave out two, to different people but anyways… One of these guys works on my team as a developer / tester / content enterer, and so a few days later, we’re looking at the site up on…