At the moment, I also work out of home with my own business. Yes, I am fortunate and thankful, but it is a lot of extra work that employees don't have to worry about (self-employed health insurance, self-employed investing, business taxes, business expenses, bookkeeping, etc.). I end up spending a lot of extra time in paperwork and away from other humans. So, like you, I also miss the office kabitzing around the water cooler. I'm a bit on the nerdy, logical, left-brain type, and find some solice here. ;) 'm not as eloquent a writer as Flakey, but that's about it for moi.

Dan