Monthly daily diaries
Mar. 19th, 2020 10:24 pmThis month's "daily diary" was due last thursday when we did a practice work from home day. But instead I'm just going to describe a typical wfh day this week.
We're both working from home. My office was 99% set up for this already. All our meetings were in google hangouts anyway and our meeting rooms used automagically know which meeting to connect to from the calendar, for the benefit of anyone WFH that day or coworkers in america. Most technical chit-chat was in appropriate slack channels for searchability and not distracting the open office. Lots of people worked from home here and there or semi regularly. So we basically had all the infrastructure already. So we just needed to iron out a few infrastructure overloads when everyone was running builds remotely at once.
There have been some other adjustments. Meetings have extended a bit to give us more face-seeing chitchat which I'm usually eager for. And implicitly use just to communicate and gauge people's status by nonverbal cues. Slack chat is more active. I may suggest setting up some coffee time video hangouts and extra chat channels.
Skipping commute has meant more leisurely mornings when we're more in sync with each other. And I can have kitchen chat and lunch with Liv instead of coworkers, with commensurately more hugs. I am very glad we're together. A lot of sympathy for people with fewer or many more than 2 in their household.
As long as I can I will keep up jogging outside even if it isn't safe to go to the gym. But I need to work out what jogging is actually as effective. And my body is impatient for commute-equivalent exercise, so I may need to work out what that is -- maybe lunchtime walks, or longer weekend walks?
I've recently not been having that many evenings out anyway, so my social life isn't that different either. But I'm making sure I do continue to build social connections to people so they don't wither away. I can feel the need building up over a week. And I'm mentally planning a lot of online social events for future, even though I'm still quite busy right now.
This post was just about our current life, it left out all of the worries. There will be other posts.
We're both working from home. My office was 99% set up for this already. All our meetings were in google hangouts anyway and our meeting rooms used automagically know which meeting to connect to from the calendar, for the benefit of anyone WFH that day or coworkers in america. Most technical chit-chat was in appropriate slack channels for searchability and not distracting the open office. Lots of people worked from home here and there or semi regularly. So we basically had all the infrastructure already. So we just needed to iron out a few infrastructure overloads when everyone was running builds remotely at once.
There have been some other adjustments. Meetings have extended a bit to give us more face-seeing chitchat which I'm usually eager for. And implicitly use just to communicate and gauge people's status by nonverbal cues. Slack chat is more active. I may suggest setting up some coffee time video hangouts and extra chat channels.
Skipping commute has meant more leisurely mornings when we're more in sync with each other. And I can have kitchen chat and lunch with Liv instead of coworkers, with commensurately more hugs. I am very glad we're together. A lot of sympathy for people with fewer or many more than 2 in their household.
As long as I can I will keep up jogging outside even if it isn't safe to go to the gym. But I need to work out what jogging is actually as effective. And my body is impatient for commute-equivalent exercise, so I may need to work out what that is -- maybe lunchtime walks, or longer weekend walks?
I've recently not been having that many evenings out anyway, so my social life isn't that different either. But I'm making sure I do continue to build social connections to people so they don't wither away. I can feel the need building up over a week. And I'm mentally planning a lot of online social events for future, even though I'm still quite busy right now.
This post was just about our current life, it left out all of the worries. There will be other posts.