Today is the first day of the rest of your life is, of course, still true. Today it was my first day back working, or at least my first day away from my home office and its power, Internet connection, etc. For the first time in about a decade I didn't have a (rented) office to go work in, so I started the day a little unsure how it was going to work out as I headed into the city centre.

Fortunately in the interveening time, Internet access has gotten much easier because of laptops, with built in wireless, and in central Wellington there's good coverage with CafeNet. Power also turned out to be relatively easy to find, as both the Wellington Public Library and Victoria Univeristy Pipitea Campus had good coverage of both power and CafeNet. MacBooks seemed to be the flavour of the day at the Wellington Public Library; at the point that I sat down there were three of us in a row, plus a couple more sitting nearby. And after a bit of surprise that CafeNet just worked when I connected and logged in to check my balance, it turned out that I had some time credit left which was a nice bonus.

In a nice loop back to a decade ago, one of the clients I went to visit today is moving -- in a couple of weeks -- into the same building in which I had my first rented office (and interestingly my former landlord is still in the building). I'm going to be doing some work -- part time -- for them over the next few weeks, so will be back working in that same building for a bit.

Mostly for future reference, there's another option for "no office" working in Wellington: AltSpace, started by Steven Heath (of Foxbane Consulting). It's somewhat more expensive than I was paying in the past when subletting office space from various clients, but it also offers more services and resources bundled in. (Various business incubators in Wellington seem to have come and gone between when I was working out of sublet desks/offices in the corner on someone's floor and now, and from what I can tell many of the business incubators world wide went through a cycle from being a good deal for the incubated through being fairly expensive.)