Thursday, 2 December 2010

(Still) Snowed in

There's around 17.5 inches of snow here. Whenever some melts, more falls. So I'm cooped up in the house working from home, and it doesn't look like I'm going anywhere anytime soon. There are however quite a few good points about working at home:

  • I have a hifi in my 'office' (well, bedroom).
  • There are minimal distractions so I'm getting lots done. The fact that I'm not at my desk seems to be dissuading non-essential 'ooh andrew, can you help with this?' requests.
  • I can use my own laptop, with windows 7 & office 2010
  • I can (and did) sleep until about 8.40am.
  • I don't have to rely on travelling anywhere.
  • If I wasn't able to do any work at all I would be going mad with boredom.
  • Lunch today was a fry up.
  • I can watch an episode of Scrubs at lunchtime.
Then, the negatives:
  • I like people chatting to me at work. Even if they don't really need anything, it's nice to break up the day.
  • After several hours of intense concentration I've had enough of work by about 3pm. 
  • VPN connection to the office is (by it's very nature) slow.
Well anyway I know there are a lot more good points than bad, but I've had enough of the snow. Anyone up for the task of making it stop?

Hope you're safe and warm wherever you are.

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