{"id":735,"date":"2001-07-03T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2001-07-03T13:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2001\/07\/toys-for-work\/"},"modified":"2001-07-03T09:25:38","modified_gmt":"2001-07-03T13:25:38","slug":"toys-for-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2001\/07\/toys-for-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Toys for work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toys for work<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/a>Joy of joys – last night the UPS truck pulled up to our house. I went to the door expecting to get some package with computer parts Denis ordered. Nope. It’s my backordered “Frigits” from ThinkGeek<\/a>. What are Frigits? Think marbles, magnets, spinny-things, chutes (no ladders – marbles can’t climb them). I can tell I’m not going to get much work done now – it’s so fascinating trying to set these up in different paths… <\/p>\n

That’s definitely the most interactive toy I have at work – it’s too big to fit on my desk (plus my desk isn’t vertical or magnetic) so it’s on the back of a cabinet near my office. I also have magnetic words, a mini zen garden, and a bunch of knick-knacks. I think better when I have something to do with my hands (or even the part of my brain that isn’t working on whatever problem I’m trying to solve at the moment). If I could only bring stuff to occupy my hands during boring meetings – like knitting or something – I’m sure I’d pay more attention. As it is, all I can do it bring my Palm and play games on it – not something conducive to paying attention! But it looks like I’m taking notes or something, when in reality I’m trying to beat my best score in one of a myriad of solitaire games. Now hopefully my boss isn’t reading this. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toys for work Joy of joys – last night the UPS truck pulled up to our house. I went to the door expecting to get some package with computer parts Denis ordered. Nope. It’s my backordered “Frigits” from ThinkGeek. What<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}