vicarz | Avoiding work

Today at work I first questioned why a director said he wanted drug testing, passive-aggressively yet pretty directly showing my view of "who the fuck cares." Granted, I talked about other areas of law and noted advanced issues in support of other items. He had no answer other than his feeling; "Drugs are bad." At the same meeting our incompetent jehovah witness said not word one (saying words out of order makes you closer to god).

In another casual meeting I tore off into a diatribe about how someone accused of looking at thousands of porn images was often not guilty as the images may include tiny pictures from around the screen which are not viewable but clickable ads. I also argued that I agreed with OGC not trying to go for criminal prosecution over child porn because their conclusion, that some of the pictures might have been of questionable age, most weren't and it wasn't possible to tell (I asked "Did they take pictures with their driver's licenses? Can you tell if someone is 16, 18, or 20?" ) and basically defended porn as a morally normal behavior. Then for giggles I noted it's not really a worthy issue to pursue porn compared to not doing your job, that it's putting religion and morality into the decision whether workers can do this under our existing "reasonable use" policies and noted the same base prevents us from ...
viewing lottery ticket numbers online. Didja know that? It's considered "gambling," even though the lottery is a multi-state sponsored venture that is completely fucking legal (like porn) but because some religions consider it a sin, government workers are prevented from doing it. I noted it's inherently pushing religion into the workplace and forcing behavior...

All at work. I'm not the shy, quiet, career minded type who tries to present his most sterile exterior to avoid offending or having controversial viewpoints. I'm very out, if you will.

Today in the gym I ran/walked 25 minutes...one more annoying trip and I get to 30 minutes then drop to 15 minutes just running. For the first time today I realized "run" has other definitions other than "10 minute mile." That's just a standard I picked up. So I "run" 10 minute mile paces, and "walk" 20 minute mile paces. Also occurring to me for the first time today was that while I'm following my doctor's prescription, I never meant to run. I don't run. I usually cut running programs when I get to 3 10-minute miles because who gives a fuck. So I think I'll stick with this but I'm not sure what I'm doing, running when I don't mean to be a runner. I also giggle that I accidentally picked up a program that would leave me better at something than before the surgery (unless I fail, which is an option too).

Ok, I want beer and video games but my stupid taxes are not improving with age.