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please empty your brain below

I won't be much of a distraction. Also working today to clear a backlog of things that didn't get done M-F. I wish I could fit it all in M-F but rarely manage that.

Tunnel Bore | 05.02.17 - 7:14 a.m. | #

Been there, done that.. way too many times.
So glad that for me it's all in the past.

Frank F | 05.02.17 - 7:35 a.m. | #

Can't wait to read a 100,000 word post today, but good luck with the deadline.

neyagness | 05.02.17 - 7:40 a.m. | #

Been there before! Though I've worked from home for the last 13 years so that's a bit different I suppose.

In the spirit of entirely random distractions - I had my first trip of the year to London the other day and went to visit a client in the Leadenhall Building aka the 'Cheesegrater'. Highly recommended for Open House! the outside lifts were wild and the views were spectacular, it's quite a building, looking forward to my next visit.

Kevin | 05.02.17 - 8:08 a.m. | #

Are you being paid overtime for this? Or do you get time in lieu? Or ...?

Antipodean | 05.02.17 - 8:13 a.m. | #

Hmmm, my experience of 'deadlines' is that they are anything but...typically an arbitrary date/time decided by some overpaid ponce whilst he's schmoozing elsewhere.

B | 05.02.17 - 8:40 a.m. | #

How about saving time by enjoying tea and ignoring global angst? It's improved our lives no end.

Herbof | 05.02.17 - 8:52 a.m. | #

I assume the first two entries were auto-posted, rather than blogged in your sleep?

martin | 05.02.17 - 9:05 a.m. | #

When I was employed, "working from home" was a euphemism for hangover...

Richard | 05.02.17 - 9:35 a.m. | #

#Richard
When I was employed, working from home was refered to as a CDO (Crafty Day Off)

Boxer | 05.02.17 - 9:58 a.m. | #

@B,

or, maybe, the person who is keeping you employed??

John | 05.02.17 - 10:09 a.m. | #

I promise not to distract you with pointless comments ..... Oh!

Cornish Cockney | 05.02.17 - 10:22 a.m. | #

Eat that frog!

Ironic Steve | 05.02.17 - 11:32 a.m. | #

Working from home, and on a Sunday!

Karl, Dover | 05.02.17 - 12:20 p.m. | #

If I have something I really need to get done at the weekend then I'll always go in and do there in an empty office. Even with the commute, I'll get it done faster. It's reasonably warm and stocked with tea. I don't find it a problem at all.

Jimmy | 05.02.17 - 2:08 p.m. | #

Working from home not likely.

Retired on full pension at 55yrs, in 2000.

House fully paid off, and worth a far bit more than I paid it for, money in bank.

All in all it’s a wonderful life.

Michael | 05.02.17 - 2:08 p.m. | #

@12:52 on the blog.

It's my birthday today (I was born the day before the King died) and I hadn't heard that song before - thanks!

John Simmons | 05.02.17 - 2:40 p.m. | #

I fully understand your situation since I myself encounter this whenever I need to work from home. So I think the most appropriate comment is...

SCREW OFF AND FINISH UP THOSE 12 BLOODY THINGS BEFORE POSTING ANY OTHER MASTERPIECE!!!

Patrickov | 05.02.17 - 4:01 p.m. | #

5 cups of tea declared, plus maybe some not declared so far today, and some yet to come. Careful you do not overdose.

scrumpy | 05.02.17 - 4:39 p.m. | #

great, so you've finished ... now get out and get some fresh air before you go stir crazy

Caz | 05.02.17 - 4:47 p.m. | #

I do wonder what DG's profession is. Not many clues today though!

Kevin | 05.02.17 - 5:42 p.m. | #

A very canny way to gather multiple revisits during The Count!

Frank F | 05.02.17 - 6:05 p.m. | #

So do we deduce that Jimmy's home is either cold or short of tea?

Malcolm | 05.02.17 - 6:12 p.m. | #

. . . and here's what DG could have been doing if he wasn't stuck indoors . . . like me, visiting the drained St Pancras lock on the Regents Canal and admiring the views from the nearby watertower (thanks for the tip, IanVisits). Strolling east along the towpath as far as the Islington Tunnel, then following the Tunnel on the surface through Barnsbury and rejoining the southern bank to skirt the City Road Basin. Decide it's time to head home and bake a cake but to go a 'different' way, so 43 bus from City Road to Moorgate, walk to Bank, DLR to Shadwell, Overground to West Croydon, Southern 455 to Wallington and bike to home. The cake is nice, too.

RayL | 05.02.17 - 7:19 p.m. | #

"At least the weather's a bit meh. There's nothing worse than working from home at the weekend when outside looks far more appealing"

I think I worked something out about offices (when I worked in town) which was why so many office buildings had smoked glass windows.

At around 12.55 you'd think 'shall I go out or just work through lunch?' Smoked glass always made the weather outside look - to use your word - "meh". So you'd just get a sandwich from the machine and carry on working

RogerW | 05.02.17 - 9:17 p.m. | #

@12:52
I did wonder if this post wasn't partially Finnemore-inspired when I noticed it was both the 5th of February and you were doing a mundane (not that these posts can ever be called mundane) log of your day. While it probably wasn't, nice to see a nod to the song!

the orange one | 05.02.17 - 11:25 p.m. | #

Antipodean | 05.02.17 - 11:49 p.m. | #

@John sorry to disappoint you no. The important bits of my work have natural 'deadlines'...there's always some ponce interfering by requiring non-functional activities to be undertaken in addition so that they can fill in some tick-box exercise related to their huge not shared bonus.

B | 06.02.17 - 8:41 a.m. | #

DG wouldn't have had to work Sunday if he hadn't gone to Harrogate on Thursday.

shirokazan | 06.02.17 - 10:46 a.m. | #

This is one of the perils of ultra-cheap rail tickets booked ten weeks in advance.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.02.17 - 11:06 a.m. | #

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