WFH
I work from home as much as I can. My wife and friends like to tease me by putting quotes around the word working with their fingers -- "oh, he's working from home." We all know that's a joke. If I were in the office I'd be so resentful I'd spend the whole time blogging like everyone else does!
But today I thought I'd take a break from writing about abstruse data center technology to mention a little bit about how freakin' awesome it is to be working from home. See, yesterday I went to the office, and after just under an hour in traffic, I spent the entire day in mind-numbing meetings. I had one 20 minute break, during which I found a colleague who happened to have his classical guitar with him at work, and I played for about 10 minutes just so I wouldn't pull my hair out. I even ate my lunch during a meeting. Then it was an hour in traffic back home in time to work some more, then choir practice and supper on the run, and up late working last night. So this morning, I have a great appreciation for the fact that I spent most of the morning working in bed and listening to BBC radio 4 over the Internet. Then I got up and ate these little left over cakes I found in the fridge. Yum! Really sugary, and good with coffee.
It's sunny and warm outside; upper-sixties. The fringe flowers are in riotous bloom. Brown thrashers, cardinals, and a couple of different types of woodpecker are flitting through the woods in our back yard. I stood barefoot on the patio and finished my coffee this morning.
Working at the dining room table, I saw one of our local Cooper's hawks emerge from the periwinkles in the deep part of the back yard with a mouse in his talons. He's as big as a cat, and sitting on a low limb in the back yard, right by the kids' play set, he was the king of everything. Then the other male, smaller by about a third, swooped down and sat about 20 feet away, screaming. The larger male, annoyed, took off in a great swoop and flutter, flying toward the house and lumbering for altitude. The smaller male went after, and I took to the patio to watch. The females were high up over the street, and I saw all four hawks circling and screaming, for all the world like they were oblivious to the interstate just two blocks to the East.
After yesterday's misery, I need a little time to reflect: it could be worse. I could have to spend every day like that.
2 comments:
This is one of the reasons why I'm taking the medical transcription classes; so I can work from home. I'm envious.
I spent all day yesterday sitting on my butt watching hours, minutes, seconds creep by, nothing to do, almost no phone calls. I kept thinking, "man, I could be doing something much more constructive if I was at home right now."
I'm jealous of your hawks too. There's a red tail in my neighborhood, but he's pretty elusive.
We've had a single male and his rotating mates for several years. In the last six months this gigantic second male, an interloper, has come on the scene. You just can't believe how big this hawk is! He'll sit low on a branch or the swing set holding his kill and just stare at you.
A lot of people don't have the temperament to work from home because of the feeling of isolation. I find listening to BBC Radio 4 -- the "intelligent speech" station -- alleviates that just fine. But I also like to break it up with short breaks of listening to music really loud and playing my son's drum set. That helps work the kinks out pretty well. And you sure can't do that at the office!
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