Birds singing, chirping, chattering. Dog pacing and snuffling. Fresh morning air through the window. Distant somnolent hum of traffic.
How the hell do people work at home?
A disconcerting clunk that accompanied every release of the clutch compelled me to reach under the Jeep and feel around and sure enough, the front u-joint is shot. So it's at a shop while I'm "working from home". Sure, in my brave youth I would have raised the truck, dropped the drive shaft, and fixed it myself. But now I know it probably takes special tools and too much time and it will be a hundred degrees out there soon and time is money and I have a job and wah wah wah, so fuck it, I signed the $138 estimate without even looking at it.
It is so wonderful to be older and wiser. Isn't it?
I can get to the file servers and IM doesn't work over the VPN and no one's going to call me or suddenly appear behind my shoulder so in theory, I could be hella productive today. Ha! See first paragraph.
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9 comments:
Flaccid? NEVER. I bicycled down to the shop, retrieved my 21-yr-old SUV, and it is now on jackstands awaiting my tender ministrations with quivering anticipation.
I find the first paragraph the very reasons it's easier to work from home. Good air quality and a relaxing atomosphere versus, well, an office.
If you need to borrow a spring puller, I have one for you. Let me know.
Tell me more about your jackstand fetish ...
Harry said, "flaccid." Heh heh.
I find I like the discipline of the office, though when I'm traveling on business I am really productive. In those hours between press forms, I get massive amounts of work done, mainly because I'm not interrupted by a project manager every 5 minutes wanting my signature on something.
Aileen
I am productive nowhere these days.
But I got the driveshaft back in, after discovering I had been an idiot and mounted the transmission yoke to the differential end. Decided to leave it and listen for vibrations rather than redo all my work. Pressing the caps out took fucking hours and I really don't want to do any more of that shit today.
Anyway, it's not so much the jackstands as having control over the positioning ...
mountings, yokes and vibrations. That's all very well, but are you THERE for your SUV?
Gekko, don't forget how it all started, when Don gave the U-joint a reach around. Can they really be close after that?
When you work at home, you can work naked. And take meetings. 'Nuff said.
FLACCID!
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