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So tomorrow I don't have to get up to go to work, I can sleep in a little later than usual and then pop out to the post office and pick up the package that awaits. Back for some brekky, and then I have to do some work.

Yes, gentle reader, your correspondent is working from home tomorrow. I have a manual update to edit and proof read. It is the sort of job that requires no disruption from ringing phones, well-meaning colleagues or insane ministers. The downside is that as I am working from home, I have to do what I say I'm going to do, and as we want to publish the manual in a month or so, I can't just pretend that I've done the work.

Still, it is freezing hard outside as I type, and I shall be able to stay snug in beddy-byes for at least an hour later than I normally would during the week. I reckon that if I grit my teeth, I can get the job done in about four hours which leaves me the rest of the day to myself. It will be an interesting exercise in self-discipline.

I confess that I normally dislike working from home, but on the five or six occasions I've sat down to do this particular task in the office, I have been side tracked and I am now well behind schedule with the damned thing.

Wish me luck, and don't expect me to answer my phone if it rings (though I expect that e-mails are like to be answered..).

(no subject)

So tomorrow I don't have to get up to go to work, I can sleep in a little later than usual and then pop out to the post office and pick up the package that awaits. Back for some brekky, and then I have to do some work.

Yes, gentle reader, your correspondent is working from home tomorrow. I have a manual update to edit and proof read. It is the sort of job that requires no disruption from ringing phones, well-meaning colleagues or insane ministers. The downside is that as I am working from home, I have to do what I say I'm going to do, and as we want to publish the manual in a month or so, I can't just pretend that I've done the work.

Still, it is freezing hard outside as I type, and I shall be able to stay snug in beddy-byes for at least an hour later than I normally would during the week. I reckon that if I grit my teeth, I can get the job done in about four hours which leaves me the rest of the day to myself. It will be an interesting exercise in self-discipline.

I confess that I normally dislike working from home, but on the five or six occasions I've sat down to do this particular task in the office, I have been side tracked and I am now well behind schedule with the damned thing.

Wish me luck, and don't expect me to answer my phone if it rings (though I expect that e-mails are like to be answered..).

Fantastic!

No, really.

As I type it's just coming up to 3pm and I've finished as much as I can do for today. In all, it's taken about 4 hours, including trips down to the kitchen for coffee to get eight chapters of the Housing Revenue Account Manual updated and ready for publication. There's still some work left in the beast - various authors (I only author chapters 4, 8 and 13) need to proof read the bugger, and then it has to be knit back into a single document, converted to PDF, have links inserted and then be published on the website - none of which can be done here, today).

I dread to think how long it would have taken in the office with the phones ringing and people wandering by with pointless and distracting requests.

The rest of the day is mine!

Hurrah!

Fantastic!

No, really.

As I type it's just coming up to 3pm and I've finished as much as I can do for today. In all, it's taken about 4 hours, including trips down to the kitchen for coffee to get eight chapters of the Housing Revenue Account Manual updated and ready for publication. There's still some work left in the beast - various authors (I only author chapters 4, 8 and 13) need to proof read the bugger, and then it has to be knit back into a single document, converted to PDF, have links inserted and then be published on the website - none of which can be done here, today).

I dread to think how long it would have taken in the office with the phones ringing and people wandering by with pointless and distracting requests.

The rest of the day is mine!

Hurrah!