I’ve been working from home all this week, and I don’t see how people do it.  I’m about to go nuts here because there’s no one to talk to.  For all my curmudgeonly ways, I still find that having interaction with other people is necessary.  Maybe that’s the secret.  Most of the people I know that are successful at working from home are married (and most of them have children).

Even so, I may work from home more often in the future, since I still managed to get the work done.  I just won’t be making a habit of doing it for more than a couple of days at a time.  The main benefit is that I get back over an hour a day that I would otherwise spend driving (30 minutes each way).  This means that I can start at 7:30 and quit at 4:30 or so.  Of course, that may be overly optimistic.  The project I’m working on will be doing system and performance testing in March.  This phase is always an opportunity for copious amounts of (unpaid) overtime (I’m not going to complain much, though, because the job keeps me in guns and ammo ).

I’m going to take the opportunity to go back to East Texas for the weekend before things get too hectic on the project.  So I’m off tomorrow and I’ll be away for the weekend.  If the war starts in the meantime, I’ll keep a good thought for our troops and the Iraqi civilians.

See everyone next week.