Laptop Slides Into Bed in Love Triangle

The New York Times ^ | August 24, 2006 | By KATIE HAFNER

[andy58-in-nh]

Re: "his wife’s mounting disapproval" - perhaps that's why he works in bed.

[JamesP81]

When I leave the office, work stays at the office. Non-negotiable.

[Xenalyte]

Xena's Guy has been known to work from bed.

His company has a month-end process that requires him to "babysit" the servers remotely for several hours, sometimes well into the next day.

Since he doesn't always want to stay up all night, he's set the laptop to beep when the process needs attending to. The beep is enough to waken his light-sleeper self, but you could turn it up to 11 and I'd never hear it.

Still, if this were an every-night thing, I'd probably tell him to go occupy some of the other 2100 square feet while he works.

[Xenalyte]

I'm that way with my day job. (My performance job by definition needs creative time.)

[VRWCmember]

[JamesP81]

(My performance job by definition needs creative time.)

I do some creative type stuff (writing) on the side. Hope to turn that into a job at some point, but that doesn't really qualify as work to me. That's pleasure.

[Xenalyte]

Exactly. What do you write?

[Petronski]

OMG, see #6.   LOL

[AmericaUnited]

Jealous wives buy their husbands Dells...

[VeniVidiVici]

This is too mundane even for the Times.

What, they couldn't find more BS to publish about the Bush administration?

[freedomlover]

IBTHDJ
In before the hard drive jokes

[TChris]

Working in bed is a horrible idea, IMO.

[freedomlover]

That looks like a pretty successful ZOT

[JamesP81]

Exactly. What do you write?

Science fiction. It's extraordinarily difficult. I'm making very slow progress, although people in this writing workshop I'm a member of have described my prose as good storytelling needing some technical work. I find it difficult to find time to write when I've got a full time job, another side project where I'm freelance developing a major software package, church activities, and my martial arts classes (especially tough, since I've been reccommended for my 3rd degree blackbelt. Requires lots of practice to get ready for).

I'm just pulled in far too many directions at once.

[AmericaUnited]

[tamed]

roflmao

[Triggerhippie]

The beep is enough to waken his light-sleeper self, but you could turn it up to 11 and I'd never hear it.

[Xenalyte]

One of my favorite movies EVER.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Spinal Tap Laptop I suppose....