After completing only 2, teeny-tiny posts, I have to get off the Internet and go to work. This is my Friday off, but things must be completed before Wednesday morning, and I'm not even sure at this point that I can pull it off. I could if nothing more got piled on my desk, but that is not going to happen (I'll bet stuff got put on it after I left last night or someone went in and put it there this morning). I could do it if I planned on working all weekend - but I don't have a key to the place, so I can't do that.
Anyway, after putting in nearly 50 hours in 4 days (good thing there hasn't been any pet-sitting), I decided I'm not going in to work today. Instead, I brought work home with me. Hopefully, my version of Access and work's version of Access play nicely together - otherwise I will have to get dressed (yes, I am in my PJ's) and go to the office anyway.
Wish me luck in getting thru this next week.
best of luck to you.
Posted by: bod | October 20, 2006 at 08:07 AM
Good luck, Bogie. It would be great if you could tele-commute most of the time. It would save you time and driving (and help the environment a little). Wish I had Access. I haven't been able to get even an Access reader to install correctly. As I am only a year away from replacing this machine, I am too cheap to buy the full-up version of Windows XP (I have the student version.)
Posted by: Cop Car | October 20, 2006 at 09:21 AM
One of the best perks you get from working at home is the clothing situation. A couple nights a month I have to play catch-up well into the night. I climb into my jammies, get out my oversized pink terry robe (if it's cold outside), make a mug of hot tea, and go to work. Even better, are those really early morning hours when you have to slip from a warm bed. You can keep the jammies just in case there's a prayer of getting back to bed. (There never is...but one can hope.)
I hope your project goes well.
Posted by: buffy | October 20, 2006 at 04:14 PM
I worked about 3 hours on database changes (I brought home a copy on my microdrive - will transfer the files when I get to work Monday) and another 2 hours on audit prep stuff (an internal audit I am trying to fit in before our survaillance audit Wed-Thurs).
The first 3 hours was in my robe, then I took a shower and got dressed, did some house work and laundry, had lunch, then back to the grindstone.
Unfortunately, I do very little work that I could actually do at home (or at least I would have to drive to work to pick it up before it could be done at home anyway). I get 20-30 work orders a day that have to be forwarded to the next person by the end of the day.
Posted by: bogie | October 21, 2006 at 03:57 AM
Fax machines are the answer, my dear. Yeah, I know. No one wants to take the time to attend to the faxing chores at the office (and oddly sized, or flimsy copy make life difficult for the fax machine.)
Posted by: Cop Car | October 21, 2006 at 05:34 AM