Working from home comes with some benefits.
While I don’t get to enjoy the wonderful zone controlled HVAC comfort of the office, there are trade offs.
And one of those trade offs is, for the most part, that my work schedule is up to me. This is something that is a really nice benefit. I like the idea that I can get my work done on my schedule and not have to work traditional hours day in and day out. So if I need to go pick up the kids or whatever, I can put my work down and go do that. This makes our lives infinitely easier to schedule. However during the summer, I stick to a pretty set schedule that is dictated by both the outside temperature and the indoor thermostat. That’s right, I tend to work around the worst heat of the day. What I do is get up really early and get to work. I keep the pace going until after lunch. We keep the thermostat in the low 80’s during the heat of the day in order to save as much as possible on the HVAC cooling. So I take this part of the day to go do my errands and get more HVAC cooling for free. I schedule my errands around the places I have to go with the best air conditioning. Then during the later part of the afternoon as the heat wanes and the thermostat drops some, I’m back in my office to finish my days work before starting dinner. It works out pretty good for me and I get both my work and errands done while also enjoying someone else’s HVAC cooling during the heat of the day.