I shouldn’t skip days.
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Amazing how quick we feel it when we fail to walk and how hard it is to get back into it.
Yay – so glad you’re back, sar! I get my exercise vicariously through your morning walk, you know. (Admittedly, this undertaking is an epic fail as far as weight loss goes, but I feel my mental capacities growing by leaps and bounds. ^_^)
I’m possibly way off on this but it really doesn’t sound like you need a physical office. You need family agreed ‘office hours’. It’s hard to get people to give you the space, of course, but that wouldn’t really change if you went to a building somewhere. There would, as you say, be the ‘can you stay home today’ etc etc…
It’s the agreed ‘you’re not there’ time… the there isn’t important so much as the agreement that your busy. I dunno how you do that. In my own job it’s the reverse, I will keep on working all the time if I don’t make myself mentally leave the office. You can make yourself sit and write when you feel like that’s the only thing you need to/can do. I don’t know how you get the fam to pretend your not there… bribery? I assume the simple solution of ‘ask them’ has been tried and failed?
One of the reasons I think a ManCave is the way to go is the lack of rent, and the out-of-sight-out-of-mind factor. If you’re not there where they can see and hear you – they’re less likely to think of you immediately as the solution to a problem. If they have to make the effort to come get you – they may just figure it’s easier to do it themselves, or to find another way to do it… That extra step of effort might help ease things off.
*you’re* busy… should have read back through that.
By the way, I’ve just started getting stuck into that Jenkins white paper, very interesting stuff!
Huh. Your morning talks so often set my mind thinking in unexpected directions. I listen while working at the loom and realize I think of my time weaving according to the clock bu in terms of one- two- or three NL walking blog sessions.