Quote Originally Posted by kfergos View Post
How do you not get all distracted when you're at home and trying to work? There's so much else I have to do here, like go for a nice bike ride in the sunny, non-March-like weather.
I've been working at home for several months, just going to the lab when the rats or students need me once or twice a week for a couple hours. Sometimes I have to:
shut down facebook
shut down my email
shut down my instant messenger
shut down the web browser...unless I have to open it to look for something. But nothing else is open in it.

Music is nice sometimes, but sometimes I get distracted looking for songs I like.

Sometimes I do the housework first so I can focus on my work. Sometimes I find the housework all too easy to ignore. Sometimes I use the housework as a break after an hour or two of concentration.

As far as a tempting bike ride, I generally find somewhere to go during the day even if I have to dig for an excuse, because otherwise I get to the end of the day and feel awful, having sat in front of the computer for so many hours. By "go somewhere" I mean by bike, because I don't have a car at home. The places I go are: campus to check on the students or the rats, my daughter's school to pick her up on Wednesdays when Daddy has class (we meet at the car), the grocery store to get more bananas, my husband's campus to eat lunch with him, or other errands like the library, hardware store, natural foods store, etc. I generally ride 10-20 miles total, depending on how many errands I have to run that day.