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At work.

It's so easy to get distracted at work.

It's one thing to say you're distracted because of music or tv. I have no issues with being distracted cause of those things.

However, being distracted by radio/tv has nothing on being distracted cause of the fucking internet. TV and radio are passive distractions. That is you just sit there and absorb what is sent to you. However, the internet is an interactive phenomenon. You must put something into it as well as pull information out of it to truly use it.

I don't even want to say something like "In my line of work...". The internet is my line of work. I can't do my job without using 3 or 4 different levels of the "internet". A huge part of this is the web. So I am more than tempted (invited I would say) to surf the web whenever I'm working. And believe me I do this all the time. Looking for any and everything.

This leads to some problems though with me tripping over my own feet. While helping someone out on the phone, I start with the "now click on, uhh, the uhh, the uhh, oh what were we doing again?". Today this got so bad that it prompted my coworker to snap at me "Pay attention!" Which briefly put me in line, but I quickly digressed again.

In other news, I don't know why html reference code won't work in this thing. I'll find it out.

I want to go into some detail about my feelings on the "new" NHL. Altogether I like this new hockey-creature. The salary cap has started to disburse some of the talent in the league to smaller teams, as noted in my last post. Hence I like the salary cap. However, I have a huge problem with shootouts at the end of league games. The system should be that a win in regulation gets 3 points, a tie gets one point each, and a win in OT gets 2 points. In this way teams would be induced to win in regulation, rather than play for a tie or a win in OT. But no, we have shootouts now. What a fucking joke! So 18 guys can bust their ass for 65 minutes and then lose cause 3 of their shooters didn't deke at just the right moment.

If this is what fans want, I don't want to be a fan.