Office life

[white_hart]

While COVID case numbers are still looking absolutely terrifying, I am really glad to be back in the office, at least some of the time; I just find it so much easier to get things done there. Partly that's having a better setup (PC with two big high-resolution monitors plus laptop for note-taking rather than laptop plus external monitor which has a much lower resolution than my office monitors, meaning much more scrolling and difficulty taking things in at a glance), but a lot of it is just that it feels like at home my brain is getting awful reception - hiss, crackling, random drop-outs and snatches of pirate stations - and in the office it's clear as a bell*. I have got so much more done in the last couple of days than I did last week, and I'm actually starting to feel vaguely competent again.

It also turns out that an unexpected bonus of the recent "consolidation" (reduction) in our bus services is that when I know that if I'm not out of the office by 5:45 I probably won't get to Summertown for the 6:27 and will either have to play bus chicken to try to walk as far as I can while not having it sail past me when I'm in between stops or be half an hour later getting home it suddenly gets much easier to stop succumbing to "just one more thing" than it was when I knew the longest I'd have to wait for a bus was 10 minutes.

*Ironically, my office has appalling actual reception for both wifi and mobile signal. I'm not sure anyone's ever been foolish enough to try radio.

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

Finally, an advantage to the bus cuts!

[white_hart]

It is very annoying, after nearly 17 years of living here and just being able to wander out and trust that a bus would be along fairly soon, to find that I have to actually consult a timetable or risk waiting for ages. But it definitely does focus the mind on whether that email actually *needs* to be written today or not.