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Back from vacation

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I returned yesterday from vacation, a week-long trip to Hawaii with my wife and kids.  We lived in Honolulu from 1997-2001 and it was our first time back.  During most of the VS 2002 development (C# 1.0), I telecommuted from Hawaii.  I feel very fortunate to have had this arrangement, and I'm glad to say that it worked out well for everyone.  I was very fortunate to have a work assignment (C# 1.0 language design) that worked well remotely, and to have such great co-workers who made it easy for me to work effectively from a remote location. 

One of the funny things about working remotely was that many people had no idea knew I was remote.  I forwarded my office phone to Hawaii, so every now and then I would get a wake-up call at 6 a.m. due to the time differences.  But Microsoft mostly runs on email, so many people had no idea.  I remember once I started working with someone new on email and after a few weeks he sent me email saying "I stopped by your office a bunch of times and never run into you . . ."  After I explained the remote work arrangement, we both got a good laugh.  I traveled back and forth quite a bit -- for the first few years I came once a month for a week -- so I just caught him the next time I was in Redmond.

Happy C# coding!

--Scott

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