Best laid plans

It was another working day – and GF was working from home. The advantages of working from home are legion:

• No wasted travel time
• No fuel costs
• No random passing conversations
• Very few interrupts
• Very productive

But… sometimes you plan the day and things just don’t work out. The team leader for the work on one of the TV companies decided that she wanted extra input to several sections of the document to be delivered today. This meant that the planned tasks dropped down the stack and the Gorse Fox got on with it.

Then there was a late-planned conference call that consumed a further 75 minutes that had been set aside for something else – things were not going well.

The final call of the day, however, was GF’s responsibility. It was scheduled for 60 minutes and with him in the chair it lasted 32! Twenty-eight minutes recovered of the several hours lost.

Meanwhile, whilst these calls were proceeding the Gorse Fox was able to set the other computer up to ingest more videos… and he was delighted that the DVDs from convertmyvideo had turned up – and several more hours of 1989 were committed to digits.