Not least of the problems is that I've got all this WORK to do, while I should be installing the comms software. But far greater is the problem that everything appears to have been tidied up. Some say it was moved to my bedroom. Others claim it was moved to the cellar. There's a theory that it was put safely behind the sofa.
Chaos reigns, and the plan of working quietly without distraction at home, is abandoned.
The attempt to get everything written requires a trip to the Ziff offices, where the priority is to get something written for IT Week. It turns out that nothing has actually happened all last week while I was on holiday, and so I can't write about it. The irritating thing is, that it takes me all day, trawling the Web and ringing friends in the industry, before it is definitely established that nothing important happened. And this evening, I have a 7PM meeting which can't be skipped. The day ends with a menacing-sounding phone call from 3Com's publicity agents.