Well, my long drawn out goodbye to my office in Greenwich finally ended last week, when the lease was up and I had to get my stuff out.

I had actually been mostly working full time from home since the start of the year and things have been going kind of well. Firstly, I'm saving tonnes of money in rent and fuel bills. Also, it's nice to have consolidated all my various my items of kit and actually have my printer, shredder, scanner etc available 24/7 and not be distributed over two sites.

I also feel like I'm able to be more productive and can tackle tricky coding projects without knowing that I have the imminent interruption of having to either goto the office, or going home. Also the quality of my lunches has improved and I've been enjoying going through some bagel suggestions.

What's the downside? Well, there's been major downside so far which has been that with my increased productivity, the RSI I've had in my wrist for about five years has flared up again and been an incredible nuisance. I'm currently trying out a new bracelet I ordered from Japan which apparently is used by athletes and is good for joing pain.

It's look a bit like those coloured arm bands that are kind of popular, but it has titanium inside which I'm hoping has healing properties. Made me think that maybe Lance Armstrong should put some titanium in his yellow arm bands and you could call them the Lance Arm Strong. Ok, just a thought.

Labels: home working, office, personal