For a few minutes, we chatted about the mundane subjects that occupy hour after hour in fire camp or on mop-up duty: improvements in the tools of the trade, what brand of boots was currently in favor, how the season was shaping up for overtime and hazardous-duty pay.
In 2010, 37% of monitored living rooms and 49% of monitored bedrooms had more than 1% of summertime occupied hours outside this comfort zone.
It was found that 29% of all living rooms and 31% of all bedrooms monitored during 2009 had more than 1% of summertime occupied hours outside the comfort zone recommended by the standard to achieve 90% acceptability.
Using unusually strong language, a senior Palestinian official, Ahmed Qurei, said Palestinians would resort to "political and armed resistance" to oust Israeli forces from Palestinian institutions that they had occupied hours after the pizzeria attack.
Perhaps the reason we often deny caregivers the social position and the respect they deserve is that we are uncomfortable with our absence from the particular chair they occupy, many hours of the day, many days of the year.
Julia Raeside Man Lab is a good half-hour show that has inexplicably been asked to occupy an hour.
"The Apprentice" performed poorly, compared with "Las Vegas," which used to occupy that hour but has been moved to Fridays.
Now repeats of the 8 p.m. program, "Countdown With Keith Olbermann," occupy the hour, and they garner a respectable rating; among 25- to 54-year-olds, the repeat is neck-and-neck with Anderson Cooper's live newscast on CNN.
My parents tell me that when I was really little I could occupy myself for hours and hours as long as I had a pencil and some paper.
With up to 4GB of internal flash storage plus an SD card slot and a 50-hour battery life the D2 can keep you mindlessly occupied for hours on end.
Like other sensible animals, cats sleep 18 to 20 hours a day, and occupy their waking hours with food and entertainment.
