The work blogger, happily working at home

Working from home. What a concept. Or, more likely for some of us, "working" from home. Working on our sleep, working on catching up on those Monster Quest episodes we recorded, working on that bag of nacho cheese Doritos. Working on that redneck tan...

Some people, however, actually work from home. After all, who needs an office cubicle to blog? (And that's all anyone does anymore, right?) At this very moment, I could be sitting in my home office, laptop resting on my lap, wearing nothing but my hemmed denim shorts ...

Point is, long gone are the days when office work entailed camping out behind a big desk and shuffling papers. Why must work be confined to specific hours? Which leads us to ask, just what did people in offices do before the age of the PC? (I'm serious; I have no idea.)

Rather than take a personal day to glare at the glowing rectangles chronicled here, contemporary 9-to-5ers roll out of bed, open or pour their first (insert beverage of choice) of the day and massage a device connected to these other glowing rectangles. And get paid to do it. And sometimes their cubicles grow cobwebs ...

NPR chronicles this phenomenon here, and asks whether or not "9-to-5" has run its course.

What do you think? I'll say this, Work Blogger is not at home as previously suggested. And thankfully fully clothed. And he hasn't owned a pair of denim shorts — or a gold necklace — since the late '80s anyway. (He will, however, soon sport a redneck tan.)

But he is simultaneously working and watching March Madness streamed live on his computer desktop. Whatever 9-to-5 has evolved into, that's pretty cool.