Posts Tagged ‘home office’

Nine Years Since My Kidney Transplant & Office Woes.

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Hi Everyone.

I have just a couple of things to say today.

First of all – today is the ninth anniversary of my kidney transplant. Pretty much smooth sailing since March 10th, 1999 thank heavens. I feel truly blessed and have lived life to the fullest to this day.

As I always do on this day every year, I will make a donation to the Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Diabetes Association. I urge you to look at how blessed you have been in your life and think about donating to your favorite charity.

Now on another note…..

Office Woes.

Well – I had good intentions when I rented an office outside the home – really I did. I moved in there last week and found that the echo was a bit much. I went out on the weekend and bought some area rugs and plants and put those in the office as well as some more furniture. That should do it.

Well – I did some recording for a client and played it back. Damned if there wasn’t an echo through the whole thing. What a pain in the arse. I brought it to my home office and redid the audio track.I moved out of the office yesterday.

So – let’s tally up:

New desk – $199
New Chair – $149
Area Rugs – $129
24 Inch monitor – $469 (okay – maybe this doesn’t count. I wanted it anyway)
Office Supplies – $69
Office Rent – $258 (pretty cheap huh?)

Total before tax – $1,273

Okay – I’ll subtract the monitor for a total of – $804.

Plus a week of messing around which adds up to about four times that number.

So now I am going to do some soundproofing of my home office instead.

Example of the audio at my office.

Example of the audio at my HOME office.

Oh well – I tried lol.

Have a GREAT WEEK!

Regards

Tim Carter

Just Went From Home Office To Real Office. The Journey So Far…..

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Well – I took a big leap this month.

My business has taken off in a serious way so I took the big leap to renting an office space.

I decided to do this because I spend about seventy percent of my working time doing instructional videos. The problem is that my wife is a stay at home mom and my youngest son is special needs so he is home schooled. Adding to that mix we have two cats and I just got the wife a Jack Russell Puppy. The neighbors dogs bark a lot too. As you can imagine it gets pretty noisy around here.

The wife gets a little annoyed because she can’t vacuum or wash clothes while I am producing videos. So that is why I decided to get a “Real Office”.

Now I must say that I do like getting out of the house and conversing with other business people so that part is great. This move was not without it’s problems though.

On the first day I couldn’t get my external hard drive to work. Turns out it wasn’t plugged in all the way. (Dumb ass eh?). I am using my laptop at the office and when I hooked up the external monitor I couldn’t get it adjusted properly. Soon I got that ironed out.

It turns out my computer went into dual monitor mode. I had never used that before. Man that is really cool. You should try it some time.

Next some homeless dude walked into my office looking for a bathroom. I got rid of him before he peed in the corner lol.

Well – everything is set – time to get to work. I started recording videos – but there was a problem. My office is so sparse that there is a discernible echo on the audio track. So today I am back in my home office recording until I can get into the city and get an area rug and a bit of office furniture.

I’ll try again next week.

Feel free to comment about your work environment and any problems and solutions you have come across.