At IBM, there is an interesting phenomenon know affectionately as WAH, or Working At Home. WAH is most often employed by those grisled old programmers who have to take their kids to the doctor's office, or sit at home and wait for the cable guy. Basically, you connect into the intranet via some firewall software and sit on the internal IM while watching the same SportsCenter on ESPN all day, or at least that's how I saw it. Unitl now, at least. Recently, I've taken advantage of this practice based on my shiny new spaceboot. Remarkably, this has worked out fabulously for me. I sat at home all day Monday and Wednesday, and it was like I was swimming in The Zone. Drowning in it. Enveloped by it. Yesterday alone I spent almost sixteen straight hours in The Zone. It was unreal. I haven't zoned for that long in years. It was quite draining, actaully. It would seem that not being barraged with meetings and inane questions all day is quite good for my productivity. This WAH thing is great, I'm going to have to talk to The Bossman about doing this on a regular basis. Considering I accomplished more Monday and Wednesday than I did in May, I think he'll buy it.
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