I am working from home today. One, because I have a sore throat and two, because I want to reduce the amount of driving I do in order to reduce my footprint.

I enjoy working out of my home. I am fortunate have a nice office in our lower level of our house. I worked really hard on getting this space set up and I am completely removed from outside influences. Its minimalist, for sure. Its nothing more than a desk, two CFL lamps, my work laptop and a couch. I can get so much more accomplished working from home than I can in our office. I like it also, because it is a quantifiable measure of reducing my impact on the environment. I have a lamp on with a CFL in it and my laptop on and thats it. My office has a sliding glass door in it that provides an immense amount of daylight, even on a dreary rainy day such as today.

I think I get sick in our office because of the horrid HVAC system they have. When one person gets sick in the office, it eventually finds its way to everyone. I am a germaphobe and am constantly washing my hands or using some sort of antibacterial hand sanitizer. It doesn't seem to help much though. I also like working remotely because I am removed from the constant bull of office politics. It drives me nuts. It is almost counter-productive. We have some folks that need some serious attitude adjustments, so much so that those of us that still give a damn are almost at our wits end and want to look elsewhere. I have to say somedays I think those of you that make your living from blogging or writing on websites are the lucky ones.

I hope to eventually be able to work at a company that is either completely on board with telecommuting and/or is logistically positioned to ride my bike to work. Maybe I will just be my own boss and start something of my own.

Cheers!