Today, for the first time, I worked from home. To be honest, it was great.

I thought I’d be miserable working on my single 19″ CRT instead of my cushy twin 21″ flat panels at work, but it worked out fine. I thought go crazy working over a laggy VPN remote desktop, but (other than a few hitches in the morning) it worked out fine. More than anything, I thought I’d be battling the temptation to go sit on the couch with a bowl of ice cream, but I actually got some good work done and everything worked out fine.

I didn’t get any extra sleep, but I did have a much more leisurely morning. I did take a shower and dress, but I was able to work more comfortably than at the office (if that’s possible considering our lax dress code). I rode my bike down the block for lunch. I got the laundry caught up. And I redesigned two database tables, three SQL scripts, and rewrote a web service to handle new, more complex, XML requests. All this and I saved one gallon of gas.

I’d say the day was a roaring success. Go me!