Working From Home

Care to share any tips on you keep your home office organized? I’ve been fighting the clutter for eons. It’s a never-ending battle around these parts. Each time I implement a small office organization tactic, it works for a while … but over time, papers and other junk still pile up everywhere there’s open horizontal [...]

When my cheap paper shredder gave up the ghost recently, it sent my daily routine into a tailspin. I’m not obsessed with paper shredding … it’s just that shredding the junk mail is a morning ritual. I guess I shouldn’t complain. The cheap paper shredder I bought at Staples lasted roughly three and a half [...]

The thermometer hit 100 today and it’s only the 9th of June. It’s time to talk about the other kind of windows again … not Microsoft windows, but the windows on your home. Window tinting, specifically.
I’ve been giving a good bit of thought to installing D-I-Y solar window tinting on a handful of the windows [...]

Do you use recycled printing paper? If not, why not? I had to take a run out to our local Staples store last night, to pick up a couple of reams of paper and a new toner cartridge for the trusty old LaserJet. It took a good bit of browsing in the paper aisle before [...]

There’s nothing quite like a good pair of gloves to chase away the winter’s chill. My fingers are the first to feel a drop in temperature … clacking away at the computer keyboard becomes an ordeal when the office grows cold. My solution? An impromptu set of computer gloves. While I’ve looked high and low [...]

My introduction to computers and caffine happened nearly simultaneously, when I started my first real job, many moons ago. The graphic artist’s position I landed led to long hours and a neverending flow of free coffee. Before long, I was hooked on both the computers and the coffee. These were the days before personal computers [...]

A storage shed can be put to many uses - from backyard barn, to pool cabana, greenhouse, or office. But how many sheds are versatile enough to be used for three out of four purposes? That’s what I’m setting out to with my little saltbox shed. I’m looking to carve out a little home office [...]

I finally bit the bullet and picked up a new cell phone about a month ago. It was long overdue. I went cold turkey after my Sidekick kicked the bucket, going sans cell phone for an entire year. No doubt some folks will be aghast that anyone could live without a cell phone, in this [...]

I was staring at the computer with glazed eyes late one night last week when I noticed a pair of eyes staring back at me from behind the monitor. It was at that point I realized that we had a mouse problem. There’s nothing quite like locking eyes with an uninvited rodent. As I drew [...]

It’s hot … real hot … and you’re on a tight budget. Could there be anything higher on a young geek’s list of things to do this summer than building a makeshift air conditioner?

When the weather gets hot, one of the greatest joys of working from home is controlling the air conditioning settings. On the down side, you’re the one that has to pay for all that air conditioned comfort. With too many windows and almost as many computers, my home office was a hot box until I [...]

When I wrote that Working From Home Can’t Be Beat back in March, I hadn’t stopped to consider the shady side of things. After all, we all know by now that the Internet has a big ol’ shady side. “There’s a sucker born every day, and two to take ‘em,” as P.T. Barnum was purported [...]

I confess … I’m addicted to working from home. I’ve fallen out of the corporate life, and thank heaven I don’t have to get up (early), shave, and drive an hour and a half to a dreary cube-farm. Been there, done that, got the t-shirts (and still wearing them, thank you). When I started writing [...]