…a day in the life of.
Dear Reader,
Life is settling down to a dull roar. My job situation has stabilized. I need to collect form a couple of delinquent customers from my contracting stint, the IRS decided that since a previous employer didn’t withhold taxes from me I now owe them a kidney. Other than that, life is good.
Today was exceptionally good. Let’s see what I did today. (all times CST)
7:00 AM Having arrived downstairs my commute to work is now over. I drag my laptop to the kitchen table and begin work. As the coffee is brewing I open approximately 20 web pages in tabs to begin my morning sweep of the web.
9:00 AM I have completed my sweep of the web, found at least 1 article to post on httpd://devzone.zend.com and posted it. It turns out that I picked the wrong article to post as the information the blogger was presenting was in fact, almost wholly wrong. (Thanks Matthew for pointing it out to me)
9:30 AM Interview with IBM. Fired up Skype and PowerGramo to record the Skype conversation. it turns out that the word PowerGramo is Latin for “doesn’t work”. The entire hour long interview was lost to history. It was an exciting and compelling interview. I don’t usually hang up the phone excited but this one was fun!
10:30 AM Fire off a note to my boss about an idea that came up in the interview
11:00 AM LUNCH! I watched an episode of “The Office”, “The Injury”, that I hadn’t seen. It was possibly the funniest episode they’ve made.
11:30 AM Back to work. Since my recorder failed to record my interview, I have to write everything up quickly before I forget any of it. (Interviews are stored in RAM and subject to nightly reboots) So it’s email off, headphones on, Jimmy Buffet in the background and I’ll off and writing.
2:00 PM Draft .5 is finished. It’s not bad but it could be better. The dogs have been begging to go outside so I grab my folding chair, disconnect my laptop, fire up a Macanudo (fathers day present from wife v1.22, the lovely and talented Kathy) and head outside.
3:30 PM Done. Draft #1 is in the can. Fire back up Outlook to see what I missed. Emails, emails, emails. Wow, ok, note to self, don’t leave Outlook off for that long anymore.
4:30 PM Blog about my day as my laptop’s battery slowly drains.
Wow, ok, today isn’t a normal day for me but I could get used to it being so. As I told a friend of mine recently. I’m sure life could get better…I’m just not sure how.
Until next time,
(l)(k)(bunny)
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July 6th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Sorry to rain on your morning — it’s just that Sara Golemon’s article was fresh in my mind, and the article you linked to so blatantly contradicted it that something had to be said.
In other news, though, ain’t telecommuting great?!?!?!!!