Archive for March, 2007
Torto Presents the Torto Network
Lap Dancing is my favorite pastime. It should be yours too.
Juana and Pol are my office mates. They are married and have 72 kids.
Jason is a stumbling and mumbling idiot. Read his blog.
I can’t even begin to pronounce this. So should you.
Weblog of the greatest janitor for Johnson and Johnson’s
Turning One Room Into An Office
My fiancee and I are in the process of buying our first house (had enough of renting), and we will soon be faced with the prospect of having to furnish the place. Luckily, the place is quite small, a flat with only 2 bedrooms, so we won’t have to try too hard to fill it!
At the moment, we rent a 3-bedroom flat. My fiancee is a teacher, and consequently has a _lot_ of files, papers, resources, etc. I have a lot of computing books, and spare hardware. We have a PC each. We therefore have two offices in our current place, one for me and one for her.
Since we will be losing a bedroom through the move, we will have to turn the one spare room in the new place into a shared office. We won’t be having a spare bed in there, so the entire space can be used for office furniture.
So basically, we need to turn the room into an office with enough desk space for 2 PCs and 2 chairs, and plenty of shelf space for books and files. The room is about 3m x 4m. Can anyone suggest somewhere to get some good-quality office furniture that makes good use of limited space? I’ve seen some large corner desks that look like they might be the way to go, but I’d appreciate some feedback from someone who may have had a similar problem on their hands.
Tax Law Sucks
The tax law has been drafted to prevent employees from deducting the expenses of an office at home. Even if the employee should meet one of the tests, such as doing administrative work at home, the employee must also show that the home office was required for the “convenience of his or her employer” in order to claim the deduction.
What exactly is “required for the convenience of the employer”?
In this case the employee lives 1/2 hour away from office, has an office at work, but works occasionally at home and most evenings.
