Interspersed with slogging away at the computer, I had some really nice interactions (in real life) with good friends, acquaintances and a total stranger up at the local coffee shop. The laptop enabled me to sit in a corner and plod away while listening in on all the conversations going on around me without having to participate. It's an amazingly effective way to get the work done without feeling you're working, and certainly explains why there are so many people sitting in front of laptops in coffee shops all over the world. It's a way of socialising unsociably. Then when you close the laptop, you are already in the midst of the action with a willing waitron taking your order, already knowing you by name and anticipating your choice.
Getting out of the house also allows those who are at home to have a little personal space, something quite essential when there are four adults under the same roof all wanting to assert their personalities and rearrange the furniture to their taste! I get up early every day and enjoy a couple of me hours before there are stirrings from the other side of the house, and when it all gets too much, we set off in different directions in our cars for wherever takes our fancy. Carpe diem, I say. Don't put off the enjoyable things just because there is work to be done. The work will always be there, but the pleasure may not.
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