You deserve a break: Whatever happened to working 9 to 5? According to the Utah Department of Employment Security, those of us with full-time jobs in 1990 worked an average of 48 hours per week. That's 4.5 hours more a week than the rest of the nation.
Men get top billing as workaholics, spending an average of 49 hours a week on the job while women spend 46 hours a week at work.No wonder the Utah work force is so attractive to corporations. We get paid less and we work more.
There's no place like home: The Delta Center just doesn't feel like home - at least that's our first impression of Larry Miller's new arena.
It's big. It's glitzy. But it lacks a certain warmth and familiarity. Going to the Salt Palace was like putting on a favorite old sweat shirt - it's ugly but it's comfortable.
At the Salt Palace, you knew where to find Jazz super fan John Sudbury. You knew where to look for the West One Jazz Band. And you could look forward to a chance to catch one of those little red basketballs at the end of the third quarter.
Where's Sudbury? Where's the Jazz band? And where are those red balls? The answers came from Dave Allred, Jazz spokesman. Sudbury is in his customary spot at center court but a few rows higher up, Allred said.
The band was replaced by the Jumbotron, a giant video monitor that really is a lot of fun to watch. And the miniball throw was replaced by a miniblimp that hovers over the crowd and drops gift certificates.
It's great high-tech amusement, but it's just not the same.
Even Karl Malone told Hot Rod Hundley after the Clippers game that the Delta Center doesn't feel like home. The Mailman said it would take some time to get used to it.
We agree.
Speaking of the Delta Center . . . : There's seems to be a little confusion about what the Delta Center actually is.
When Brooke took her 7-year-old daughter to a Jazz game last week, the daughter asked, "Is this an airport?"
And it's just not young minds that are a little mixed up. When Dennis was walking through the Salt Lake International Airport's new parking structure a few weeks ago, an obviously lost woman asked him, "Do you know where the Delta Center is?" Turned out she wasn't interested in basketball at all. She was really looking for the Delta Air Lines terminal.
As long as airplane pilots don't confuse the two buildings, we figure people will be safe.
("Loose Change" appears in the Deseret News on Mondays. To reach Dennis or Brooke, call 374-1162 or send us a fax at 377-5701.)