I’m having the building work done so I can start my working from home. It’s so scary for a ditherer like me to commit to where the sockets should be & I’m trying to get it right (after having to crawl under my desk to turn the mains off for years last time I set up an office at home!).

I’ve got that far but I’m desperately trying to install enough cables before the plaster board goes on - two phone lines, cat 5 in & out (a feed from my router & a spare as I guess I’ll need a hub on my desk so I can take an out to feed the kitchen), speaker cables from the lounge stereo (I could do with screened lead going back to feed the stereo from the desktop but at a pinch I could use the speaker leads?) and last (and least flexible) coax from the video for a TV. I already had speakers & coax running through to the kitchen but I’m bringing them out to wall box so I can break in if I need to.

It’s the “now’s the time” pressure. I can run cables later but if I do it now it’s so much neater… Oh well, it’s what makes me (I hope) a good software engineer. When I’m laying the foundations I like to keep all the options open. It may be good software design but in building terms it’s stressing me out - what will I need next week? What if decide the desk should be the other side of the room? Which is exactly what happened to this office, where I now have to crawl under the desk to turn the mains off…