Workshop loft re purposed for my home office
I am a veteran of Working From Home and Working On the Road. Armed with my 1st company issued laptop in 2001 and mobile phone, it was my job to travel regionally around Singapore to create IC design software application for my customers. At that time, there was no mobile broadband and wifi was in its early days. During the SARS outbreak of 2003, all travel was cancelled and I worked from home comfortably. I always rather work from home than to go to the office. Think of all that time I did not waste on travelling, $$$ saved on parking….
Vertical vinyl siding on the workshop
Having moved to the Port Townsend in 2014, we bought this forested land in beautiful Port Townsend. We’ve built a tiny cabin of 196 sqft before the 1st winter and improved it little by little. We’ve got water, electric and septic in by the 2nd year. Over the years, we’ve made it really comfortable, but it is still 196 sqft…. Fortunately we added a tiny workshop building in 2018…. also 196 sqft + 72 sqft loft. We house tools, weather sensitive building materials and 3 workshop cats in it.
During this mandatory WFH period, the “guest loft” in the workshop is now my office. I had to get a big screen from the office as my work was about controlling the graphics on 3 screens. The screens dont fit the tiny table in the tiny loft in the tiny workshop, but I am making it work.
Using a hand pull saw instead of my brand new mitre saw. Need the exercise, makes me feel zen about things.
The best part of WFH, for me, is that I get to work on the siding instead of driving in Seattle traffic. Hooray for making great progress on my workshop and for not contributing to the carbon issue.
Breakfast on Day 1 of Stay Home order.
This covid19 crisis has made people gone mad. The shelves were empty. We shall live on what we have stocked in this little cabin in the woods. It is surprising that we have enough toilet paper and kitchen towel for 6 months at least, enough pasta, grains and canned food that we will eat well for 3 months. Our medium size freezer is not too well stocked in American standards, but frozen food is not in short supply here. On our weekly grocery trip, we were always able to get lots of meat, dairy, fresh veggies and fruits. The frozen section is filled to the top! Lots of frozen meat, seafoods and ice cream available. Beers and hard beverages shelves are full. Nobody will ever go hungry, and never dry out too. Only thing is, bread, eggs and paper products (not that we need any) were always out.
Day 1 Dinner
Finally the order is out, we must do our part, stay home and stop the spread. So here I am, documenting my every meal, activity and people that I meet during this period. When this crisis is over, we may look back and reflect on the changes or sacrifices that we made.
Day 1 Breakfast, fried rice with Safeway Hot Italian sausage meat package, french beans and egg. I find that we like to flavor our fried rice with cumin and turmeric powder, and the usual condiments.
Day 1 Dinner, stir fry “Home Roasted Pork”, sliced cabbage and celery over rice makes this a complete and nutritious meal.
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