I learned on vacation this week that the corporate world is not for me.

I always knew my Dad had tales of woe that caused him such anguish that when I handed him a Dogbert book he read a few pages before retreating to his bedroom to cry -- his pain was too real to see this as comedy.

So my oldest friend was at the house for dinner when I was visiting my parents, and he works in a very similar location in the corporate/manufacturing world. They communicated about their woes like they had worked side by side for decades though they barely know each other. The additional details my friend provided after dinner only cemented my dread of their world.

Whatever I do in life, I'm not going to be trapped in a building where meetings and bureaucracy and induhviduals sap your ability to not only be productive but also to leave work without bringing the stresses of it home with you afterwards.

It's getting time to start the annual ritual of drafting your fantasy NBA teams. Me, I've been playing for years, dating back to the days when Sandbox.com was totally FREE. Well, they started charging $$, and our league left for Yahoo! where we've been ever since, playing football, baseball and basketball.

A few years back, we decided to make our basketball league a keeper league, since we had so little turnover and so we could reap the long-term benefits of wise drafting and trading.

Suddenly, this year we lost three owners instead of the annual one or less. And we have only replaced one of them so far..... 

Anybody interested? 

Well, a replay of the 9-27-05 episode of "The Office" was on Bravo last night, so I recorded it and watched it this evening.

I don't fault the WLEX-18 General Manager for choosing to pre-empt the show. It was racy by network standards, though in language only. This isn't a show with buxom bikini-clad models strutting around (but there was an inflatable).

I wonder about the show's creators, and what kind of reaction they wanted from their audience. In most of our situations, we cringe in agony at how inappropriate some behavior can be in the workplace. But I can understand that in the wrong hands (America haters, unrestrained juveniles, people who don't understand the concept of a sitcom) this could encourage the wrong reactions.

 But I, and my wife, laughed out loud at the antics on the show and appreciated the efforts of the cast and crew.