{"id":1554,"date":"2011-04-27T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:58:16","slug":"the-home-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/the-home-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Home Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ain&#8217;t braggin&#8217; or nuttin&#8217; but I&#8217;ve got a sweet workspace in a corner of Fortress Mamea:  trusty Powerbook, USB hub, ergonomic keyboard, a wee print of Oriental Bay to remind me of my hometoon, multimedia speakers (and headphones for when I&#8217;m playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Method_Man\" target=\"_blank\">Meth<\/a>), small but significant things from, or of, my lovely family, wifi, and enough desk space for my growing external hard-drive collection.  Work gets done in that little corner.<\/p>\n<p>Not as much as I&#8217;d like, but.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicaddress.net\/up-front\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Hart<\/a> says it best about working from home:  having thought about providing some helpful advice for fellow  earthquake-affected Cantabrians forced to work from home for possibly the first time in their lives &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I got right on [to it], and slightly over a week later, the typing started. There were a few games of solitaire first, of course, and some time spent chair-dancing while I warmed up, and since the top of this page I&#8217;ve checked Twitter six times and it&#8217;s one in the morning. Which is kind of appropriate [Game of Scramble] because one of the hardest things to deal with when you&#8217;re working from home [check comments at The Stroppery] is distractions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more <a href=\"http:\/\/publicaddress.net\/up-front\/home-is-where-the-ooo-shiny\/\" target=\"_blank\">where that came from<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, once I&#8217;ve clicked the <i>Publish<\/i> button for this post, watched the news, had dinner (<b>The Boy<\/b>&#8216;s doing macaroni cheese tonight), checked my blogfeeds, watched some appointment telly with <b>The Goddess<\/b>, checked the newsfeeds, and walked <b>The Dog<\/b>, I&#8217;ll be ready to rumble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ain&#8217;t braggin&#8217; or nuttin&#8217; but I&#8217;ve got a sweet workspace in a corner of Fortress Mamea: trusty Powerbook, USB hub, ergonomic keyboard, a wee print of Oriental Bay to remind me of my hometoon, multimedia speakers (and headphones for when I&#8217;m playing Meth), small but significant things from, or of, my lovely family, wifi, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/the-home-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Home Office&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-procrastination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}