So I couple of days ago I decided to finally get an office away from home, I love my office at home, I have all my books, a big desk, proper height of the monitor, I can listen the music I want as loud as I want but there is a catch, lately I haven't been able to meet deadlines, I couldn't even work enough hours, and I couldn't concentrate for more than 15 minutes in a row, for me it gets me a while to focus on what I'm doing and really excel at it, normally between 10 and 20 minutes where I read the code I'm working on from yestarday, I get it all in my mind, I figure out what needs to be done next, write down some questions I might have for the client, etc.. and that's about the same rate I get a phone call to the house, or I hear "nooooooo don't do that!" or the kid started crying or yelling, or the TV very loud with cartoons, or my son getting into the office with his toys and playing right next to my mouse, moving away my mouse to make room for him to play, or the kid turning off the server I'm working on while it's upgrading, or whatever distraction any normal home with kids have, so yeah, I did it, got myself a shared office with a friend of a company I used to work and another company, we are 5 people in a small office but we are all there to focus, work and make money so we are all on the same mood and need the same things. So far it's working very good, in a couple of days I did what I've tried to achieve in about a week or more at home, I get to walk there, just one mile walking, it's close enough, it's cheap because we share and it's 2 blocks away from the sea and there are a lot of cool restaurants and stores around, even a place were I can buy fresh fruit on my way back home, I love it.

It's a house converted to have a lot of small offices so, if I get to expand and hire people it's just a matter of move my stuff to the next door and there we go :)

Seems like 2009 will be productive!

happy holidays everyone!