The new office

My new office is crazy exciting — at least, it is to me. We converted one of the bedrooms into my full-time office. While I loved sharing the office space with the wife, I just don’t work that way. I’m a very heads-down kind of guy. I like to start at the top of a task list and move to the bottom. My beloved wife, on the other hand, is a little more holistic. She takes the entire day at a time; to me, it seems almost like she’s weaving a day full of chaos into some kind of single, meaningful pattern. Blows my mind, man.

Of course, the big recent success is this sexy standing desk over here. My office contains that standing desk, the stool, a little cart to hold a music player, and an old, plush Laz-E-Boy recliner we bought at the thrift store for 8 bucks. I’m a thrifty kind of guy. But the second rule of freelance is that you don’t spend money you don’t have to. I’m pretty thrilled with how the desk turned, and am happy with the office in general. I’m not completely sold on the chair being perfect yet, but I admit that I can be kind of picky about that sort of thing. I think that when I finally get around to buying a “real” chair for the office, the sales folks will have to deal with me sitting in the store, working on the chair for a few hours first. Still, that’s not so bad for a commission, right?

Commercial: A little over 15k
Independent: A little over 1k

So, a productive week … but I need to do a lot more next week.