Well, not today, but I spent a couple days doing just a bit of that. My mom’s side of the family has a big pre-holidays get together every year, so we traveled for that.

I don’t work a lot when we go on trips because I like the time with my family. One of the big challenges of working at home is learning to take time off, and trips are one of those times I really think about how much I should or should not be working.

But a little bit of work is often a good idea. For me it’s often just quick things, a check of my work at home forums, a blog post or so because I really need to share an idea, that kind of thing.

Of course, what that really means is that I have to be prepared to do that kind of work. Nice thing about online work is that it means all I really need is a computer, an internet connection and my signon information for whichever accounts I might want to access.

I have a simple rule for working on vacation. It’s done first thing in the morning or last thing at night. It’s not allowed to interfere with anything during the day. A crisis may cause me to work longer than I would like to, but one the whole, I’ll rarely work more than a half hour a day when on vacation.

The hardest part about working from someone else’s home is simply the different setup. There’s always a lack of comfort, even when the computer has the same operating system and there’s a decent computer chair. It’s the little things, plus a lack of my usual software. Even thought much of what I do from home is purely online, there are things I need software that is one my computer for.

My someday solution for this is a laptop computer. That’s not in the budget now or for a while, but I expect it will happen someday.

But even with that I expect to minimize my working when on vacation. Time with family is just too important.

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