The Ink-Pot and the Palette

Once a year, and they'd like it if I'd do it twice. The technology gap is vast. To participate adequately, one extremely large monitor or two regular sized ones affixed to a Windows or Mac computer, a land line, and a land-line headset would all be required.

I have none of those things at home, and my employer has neither the means nor the motive to provide them. But you want to know the real truth? A) I like to bitch about it and B) "working from home" is a complete contradiction in terms as far as I'm concerned. I'm much better off in the office.

This virtual classroom thing is so far above flying to some hotel suburb and eating cooked freight for a week that I really have very little room to complain (though you observe that I can find room), and the trick for me is finding relevant courses that don't happen in the winter.