I am currently working during the daytime from my in progress home office. There is a long way to go to bring this up to my dream home office. But I am careful in my spending and hence I am not in a hurry to bring it up there in one go. I think that this will be a constant work in progress. I want to make sure that I spend on it after the rest of the expenses are incurred, now that I have brought it to a comfortable and workable state. There are a a lot more stuff that I would like to put in here.
I have found space for my books, stationary, supplies and equipment. Since I have not got the two workstations that I was planning to get for future employees, I still have plenty of space left in my office room. I think I am still only occupying about one third of the floor space. This room looks pretty empty!
I have got a white board now. It is a pretty good addition that I wasn’t exactly planning to get. Now the challenge will be to keep it from becoming my kids scratchpad. So I have fixed it slightly above their reach, so at least the top part would be left for my use.
I am becoming pretty good at salvaging old equipment. I found an old wireless keyboard and a mouse lying around the house and I am now typing away on that. I am also going to salvage one of the old computers and convert it to a NAS or a media center. It has a pretty good graphics card with a DVI. If I can salvage the video card for the ultimate developer rig, this will certainly become a NAS. One TB of HD space is about $100, so I am thinking of getting my first terabit storage. At least then I will be able to consolidate all my digital photos. I don’t have much of a collection of music or videos, but once I get the NAS, maybe I can start building a collection.
Then I am, thinking of resurrecting my hackintosh. I never went anywhere with my hackintosh earlier. But I think now I can afford to spend sometime developing an application for the iPhone or at least use it to test my web apps on Safari!
I am finally working on a multi-monitor setup with my Laptop monitor and the LCS. I am already experiencing the productivity gain. I can actually multi-task with this setup. And the added screen real estate is amazing. I am now more than determined to build the UDR (ultimate developer rig) with multiple monitors. If I have three monitors like my LCD, that will be awesome. Only thing I am not sure about is whether my desk has enough surface area to hold them!
Tech-wise I have two different pieces that I need to put together. That is I need a Wireless Router and a good UPS. I think if I add those two, the rest can grow with me over time.
It is a good feeling to work from a place which actually gives you some kind of a GTD feeling. It is more like an office than a living room of a house and hence has lesser distractions and helps in getting the tasks done. I am actually going to finish setting this place up after I go through the GTD books tips on setting up your cockpit. Cos this, is going to be my cockpit!
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