My life as a telecommuter is coming to a quick end

Well, my little telecommuting gig got terminated due to budget cuts in spite of the client stating that I've exceeded their expectations. And in spite of the fact that this is a definite aspect of independent consulting I have to say that I'm pretty pissed about it. It was only intended to be a three month gig to start with so to cut it off at 1 mo. and 1 wk. is just retarded. More importantly, I bought a laptop for this gig because they said they wanted me to bring my own gear (of course it would be useful for telecommuting from coffee shops too but I could of made do by working at home if I knew it was going to be this short). They will still be developing all the stuff I was going to be working on it's just that it will take longer because the one coder left will have to do it. So back to the gig hunt...

It's been a while

Geez, I haven't posted in forever. It's not that I haven't had anything to say it's just that I don't have a blogging habit and if something isn't a habit it tends not to happen on a regular basis. In any event, I will try to do better (not that anyone actually reads this).

I recently started a new gig building a Wicket app for a trucking company. It's a small company so they were up to trying newer tech like Wicket and Java 6. We also don't have to use any app servers from a giant corporation so we just use Tomcat. Anyway, I won't go on about all that crap because this isn't intended to be a tech blog. The point I'm getting to is that I'm able to telecommute two days out of the week which is an option I've never had before. Frankly I really don't mind going into work for the most part since it gets me out of the house and if I'm at home my dog will bug the shit out of me because she thinks it's fun time when I'm home. So I've taken to working at coffee shops. I move around so as not to be particularly annoying to any one coffee shop and I can get unlimited internet access at will (although this requires a little hacking in some loocations). This whole routine has taken some getting used to. I had to learn where to sit, how to sit, and how to hack my internet access when necessary (which is pretty damn easy to do). It's a pretty cool arrangement really but I would prefer to have a local working location instead (like the co-working concept). I'm able to tune out noise well enough but I just prefer having a desk to work on instead of a lap or sticky table.