Sickly news...

Despite being sick I still have the pleasure of working, albeit from home. Though I appreciate the flexibility to work from home I rarely take advantage of it. I don't feel comfortable working from home as I feel I need to be extra responsive. Not that I am not ultra responsive thanks to the blackberry, but thanks to an ingrained guilt/work ethic I feel I need to prove I am worthy of being trusted to work from home less I spoil it for everyone. Most, not all, of my peers use this flexibility as expected, to hide away and do anything but work which I should be doing also but cannot thanks to the aforementioned guilt ethic.

More importantly home is very sacred to me and I would prefer not to sully that with anything work related. Up until recently I worked from home after putting in a full day at the office. Circumstances have changed so that I don't work as much after hours so I try to work only from the office. Regardless, whenever I plan to work from home issues arise that require I stay or maybe I perceive there is too much to do to allow me to work from home. Self delusion is a topic for a separate post.

So here I am on the couch with Cletus taking conference call, sending emails, etc. all while trying to ward off the impending goofiness from my illness. Two bright spots today for me to take the edge off. First and foremost there is a tentative list of cities Radiohead will play during this summer's tour. I plan on going out east and west for shows as well as catching the Dallas and local show. The other one came courtesy of boingboing.net which introduced me to my hero for today pictured right.