Homeworking Begins

Not Me, Today!

I’ve started my first proper day of working from home today and it’s certainly been an interesting experience so far.
After a couple of weeks of holiday (this should probably be in quotation marks as I spent a couple of days working, but I’m conscious of the fact I use quotes and brackets too much) I took Sally into work for the first time in years before turning around and coming back home again.

The strangest thing for me so far is just how quiet everything is.  We aren’t noisy people by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s a rare occurance that I’m at home on my own with Sally working two days a week.  So just having Will for company is a little odd.  He’s not much of a conversationalist either.
Motivation is also a key factor for working from home.  Right now I’m in the final phases of getting the book ready, but there are just so many distractions around I’m finding it very difficult to concentrate on actually getting that done.  Procrastination is of course the thief of time, and I wouldn’t be able to put up anything but the flimsiest of arguments that this very blog post isn’t just that.

Pointless meanderings like this post aside, I have not a single regret about making the change to step aside from my last contract and slow things down a bit for a while.  Work is coming along, it’s local and there are other people who are wanting to talk to me which is great.
The final book manuscript has been uploaded to Lulu today and I’m now waiting on them to get in touch to discuss the publishing package we have purchased.  The cover art is locked, and the PDF version of the book will be ready this very afternoon.  So perhaps we should call this a minor procrasatination break.  I’ve got three hours until I have to go out and see a new client so I’ll do my best to resist the lure of starting Bioshock 2 and crack on with things.

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