How To Swing Those Long Hours – Build a Pillow Fortress

15 Jan

So, you’re moonlighting on your little side project, but you’re exhausted from work.  You code at your day job, so getting down to it at home is just so hard.  Or you’re a freelance developer and you find it hard to get your work done at home.  You’re always getting up and moving around, watching TV, reorganizing your sock drawer — you know, important stuff.

Here’s a foolproof method (patent pending) to force yourself to get down to work.  Gauranteed results or your money back:

  1. If it’s winter time and cold outside, open all your windows.  If not, turn up your AC to max and turn on all your fans.
  2. Next, brew a steaming hot cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate (will become important in step 6).
  3. Gather all of the blankets and pillows in your humble abode.  Don’t be stingy now, grab those couch pillows and cushions too.

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    Exibit A - Failure to follow steps properly

  4. Also, grab a couple of stout chairs or other sound structural members and set them up such that they surround your work space tightly enough for only 1 person to squeeze in.
  5. Now, carefully and with precision, place your pillows and blankets around and on top of your structural members.
  6. Slowly, as not to spill, take the hot beverage of your choice (see step 2) and insert yourself into your new pillow fortress.
  7. While in your newly constructed pillow fortress, carefully pull the pillows and blankets in further such that the only things accessible are your keyboard, mouse, monitor and hot beverage of your choice (see step 6, preceded by step 2)

The goal here is to create a localized environment so cozy that you just don’t want to venture out into the barren iceland that is the rest of your living space.  Trust me, it works – you will find yourself so engrossed in your work, so cozy, and so afraid to get frostbite, that you can’t help but sit at your computer and work on that project of yours.

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