The office is closed today, but all that means for lawyers is that we have to work from home. And I can't work in the study when the kids are in the house because they just barge in while I'm on a conference call and demand to watch Cartoon Network or scream that their brother touched them. Had a important call this am so I tried something new and admitted defeat - that I cannot work in my study - and retreated to the workshop (a.k.a. "the Bat Cave" because it's behind a hidden door in the study) for the call. Carried the laptop and phone w/headset and cleared a spot on my insanely messy work bench and did the call in here. It actually worked out really well. It's just a little distracting to be staring at model parts and paints jars during a conference call. But it is quiet, which is what counts, and the old counter stool my father in law gave me is pretty comfortable...