"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Plan for today ... hmmm.... two hours paid work ... some more of my paperwork project .... I really need to get out into the garden - weeding, chopping stuff up, clearing stuff away - but the ground and the grass are *soaking*, violent showers that don't last long - they still do the biz, tho. I'll probably wait till the afternoon. Quite a boring post really, sorry!

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Because its not decorative, its a D ring wotnot to attach it to a belt or a daysack or something

A carabina?

Karmacat wrote: »

- might well come in handy at some stage, just not in my house

So take it off until it is useful...

rtandon27

Morning!

Another home day planned after two days working on contract.

Think the term domestic goddess is a bit to ambitious but I'd forgotten just how productive life can be outside the 9-5 grind. It's so nice to be able to get through all the little tasks that seem to otherwise pile up.

Ambition for the day - 15 minute sessions of frog eating with 15 minute sessions of cyberspace! :o:o

XO
RT

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

A carabina?

So take it off until it is useful...

Z! :eek: Stoppit :rotfl: I've bought the other one already! I haven't used it yet, I'm still using the one I'm complaining about, but there you go, I never said I was being logical :o:o

rtandon27 wrote: »

Morning!

Another home day planned after two days working on contract.

Think the term domestic goddess is a bit to ambitious but I'd forgotten just how productive life can be outside the 9-5 grind. It's so nice to be able to get through all the little tasks that seem to otherwise pile up.

Ambition for the day - 15 minute sessions of frog eating with 15 minute sessions of cyberspace! :o:o

XO
RT

Sounds good, RT! When I think of how much time I have compared to people who commute - although my sister gets *really* long holidays because she works in a private school, her working day is 12 hours out of the house. And friends who commute to London are out of the house for even more. I, OTOH, am sat here in my own house, no travel expenses, no public transport issues (including viruses!) and free to pop downstairs to the kitchen any time I want.

Tho I wish I knew how to do a bit of contract work .... any tips?

Above situation ... pah! I just spent two hours on tenterhooks, my usual two hours computer work before coming on here totally disrupted by the latest download from Windows - scanning and restarting and checking, all sorts of things, dreadful. As RT says, tho, I got lots of "the little tasks" done - even tho they were stuff that I didn't have to use the computer for, there were a lot of them! Office is now tidier, so are the books, in-pile is a lot smaller I've even ticked 3 things on my to-do list

Cheery_Daff

Good stuff KC! :T Amazing how productive you can be without a computer :rotfl: :rotfl:

I've got a nice balance - in the office for 2 (occasionally 3) days a week - that's 4 hours round trip so I'm usually out for 12-13 hours. Other 3 (or 2 ) days I'm at home so can just stroll upstairs in my slippers and pop to the kitchen whenever I like Like today

Karmacat

That *is* a nice balance, Cheery, you're right. After the Windows trauma, I think I need a strong cuppa tea, so I'm doing that downstairs thing right now

mizmir

I'm loving working from home - but am finding it hard to do the concentrated work I need to - too many more interesting things to occupy me I think! But to be able to walk dogs in daylight, and have them pottering around my desk as I work is a joy. My office here is downstairs - opens out into the garden and has doors to the kitchen and the lounge - it is perfect!

Am aiming to do at least 4 concentrated hours a day on work stuff + all the little bits of admin that need to be done. I reckon that, when you take account of meetings, getting from one place to the next, chatting to colleagues and all the other stuff that makes up a work day, 4 concentrated hours will produce as much as I would if I was in the office!

Today however I need to do 8 to make up for doing none yesterday . In my defence I had a headache for most of the afternoon and evening and went to bed at 9.30 with it. More or less gone now - think it is the air pressure here.

Karmacat

Air pressure can definitely do that - hope you feel better today, miz. The garden is another benefit of working from home thats true - my neighbour loves his garden dearly, but since he also does the 12 hour day thing, only sees at weekends for 6 months of the year, poor thing.

I need to rescue my shed - the waterproof roof cover blew off a couple of weeks ago, and we had *downpours* yesterday. OTOH, its falling apart anyway - might be easier just to buy a new one next year ...

The cuppa's very nice



ETA - one computer-y thing I did do before I downloaded the Windows update, was to book a room on the Travelodge sale - in Coventry! Whaaat, I hear you cry? My chosen one was Rugby Central (tho I see that has a noise warning cos its so close to the railway) to go to Garden Organics and do some genealogy research, but that had gone up to £19 a room - not for me, ha! Coventry was £10 still, and I'd have to go via Coventry to get to Garden Organics, so Coventry it is. No noise warning, and its on a comparative side street, not a main road, so I'll probably be okay.

3 days, £30! Result!

Karmacat

Not doing too badly at all:
- my paperwork project went well this morning, tho I need to do another angle this afternoon.
- sorted out routes for journeys I need to make Friday and Saturday.
- am carrying on scanning, which is decluttering nicely.
- birthday card to nephew, late, argh.
- sparked by an email, I'm also going through the latest free kindle books - downloaded a few classics, particularly a few in French, some of which are 18th century travellers in Egypt - Napoleon was very big news in Egypt around that time, I think, Battle of the Nile and all that

These are things that have been quite fun, but there's plenty of stuff I should do, like the Accounts, that I don't *want* to do sigh ....

gilligansyle

KC - you can switch the automatic windows update off, and then run it when it suits you, not when it can disrupt your day.

Mr T have Kindles for £89 - you don't actually have a kindle do you? You have an app on your computer?

the scanning and decluttering reminded me .....its just as well I forgot the stuff about the Child Migrants, I'll find some time and scan some of it in for you.