Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 This working from home has some benefit, getting on the beer/wine on a Sunday night being the main one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Singh Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Been wfh since Tuesday, my wife since Monday. Not a completely new thing for either of us, do it on occasion but not for this length of time coming up and the hardest part will be staying motivated.Keeping to a routine will be vital, no kids to dictate that, but easy to let standards slip.Top tip, only listen to the news once or twice a day, depressing as f*ck otherwise. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 I’ve tried to organise my garage into a mini gym and it would comfortably be the worst mini gym in the entire world. I have a 40kg worth of barbell plates, a terrible mini barbell thing, a cross trainer that’s been left in the garage since 2017 and, er, that’s it. The ceiling is low and I don’t have a squat rack or bench so I can only do deadlifts.I can feel my gains evaporating before the virus even takes hold. I’ve got some dumbbells somewhere I’m sure not that they are much good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdcal Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 We are on week two of this, my wife has lost her job as her workplace is closed for foreseeable. I turned the kids toy room into an office. The main door is locked. The second door to the bathroom is locked on my side so I can use it and wife and eldest can use that bathroom (using upstairs bathroom involves stopping daredevil toddler racing them up the stairs).I had tried the kitchen as an office but as alluded to elsewhere on the first day the toddler decided to sit beside me, toddler speak at me, shit himself and continue toddler talk. All whilst I was trying to explain to the hard of thinking that investments can go down as well as up. I have tried to keep to the same routine as pre work from home. Up shower, dressed, coffee and head to work. Just now I get proper cooked lunch and the commute has gone from an hour each way to a minute. I get to pop into the office once a week for posting. I'm midst a massive project and dropping to one screen is a pain in the tits. The other option is get the long HDMI cable I have and try and use my old TV as a second screen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_j Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Full pay?Aye marraFair dos to them . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 10 minutes ago, weirdcal said: The other option is get the long HDMI cable I have and try and use my old TV as a second screen. You should have thought about that before and locked an IT guy in the basement, what were you thinking? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdcal Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 You should have thought about that before and locked an IT guy in the basement, what were you thinking?We use display link on laptop, not many tvs have a display link po try.The it guy gave me a displaylink to hdmi converter but the TV is a rear projection bravia. It's 50 inch so one screen being laptop 15 inch and then second being a washed looking 50 is a smidge too dis proportionate for me without a decent length hdmi cable.Company ordered a few monitors for staff so I just need to bother my arse into the office to collect it next time I go printing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 My office-based staff will be down to a grand total of one person (me) and one whippet this week. Others can work remotely. May have to swap the roles around in following weeks around depending on who has cabin fever/killed/not killed their spouse. No idea how I’d cope with working from home. Don’t think I’ve been at home during the week for anything other than a bit of lunch since I was a student. Never off sick and when I have time off It’s always away somewhere. Leave house. Into car. Park. Into office, lock door behind me, coffee machine on. Go home. Repeat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Start of the first proper week of wfh tomorrow. Managed to download CM01/02 so will probably fire that up around 0930hrs. I’m in the wee spare room so need to get a sign on the door to keep the bairn/missus at bay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 4 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: My office-based staff will be down to a grand total of one person (me) and one whippet May have to swap the roles around in following weeks Aye, put the dug in charge. It couldn't be any worse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 I have dual screens in the office and at home but our remote access thingie only gives me one screen and I can confirm it is annoying as f**k. #firstworldproblems I normally have three screens but only have one when working from home and it’s really annoying. How did I work for literally decades with only one screen? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 minute ago, ICTChris said: I normally have three screens but only have one when working from home and it’s really annoying. How did I work for literally decades with only one screen? Obviously it's going to take you three times as long to do the work, so bags of overtime! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 8 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: need to get a sign on the door to keep the bairn/missus at bay. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 On 20/03/2020 at 23:03, DA Baracus said: Pedantry is a fast moving business There's thread on here about hunting you... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 39 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: My office-based staff will be down to a grand total of one person (me) and one whippet this week. Others can work remotely. May have to swap the roles around in following weeks around depending on who has cabin fever/killed/not killed their spouse. No idea how I’d cope with working from home. Don’t think I’ve been at home during the week for anything other than a bit of lunch since I was a student. Never off sick and when I have time off It’s always away somewhere. Leave house. Into car. Park. Into office, lock door behind me, coffee machine on. Go home. Repeat. Good move as a barista locking the door behind you guarantees a quiet day 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 I cleared out the spare room today in anticipation of working from home later this week. I discovered that I had accumulated some amount of plastic junk during the Guitar Hero/Rock Band fad about a decade ago. The DJ Hero turntable still looks as cool as f**k though. I also own a stupid amount of football programmes that I will never read again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 Open Uni have some free online courses. Could be interesting and a good way to pass time; https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ As many here are raging alki jakes, this course, The Science of Alcohol, may be of interest. Homebrewers may also find it useful as it apparently goes in to some detail on that front. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/the-science-alcohol/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 Infection and Immunity is rather topical just now; https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/infection-and-immunity/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 Now that we might have some time for it, have you thought about creative writing or writing in general? This one could be of use; https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/creative-writing-and-critical-reading/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 Loads of old games for PC available to buy here, usually cheaply: https://www.gog.com/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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