Twl, you forgot "I've been working on the railroad"...
Cwlondon, excellent thread! I hope you'll get a ton of responses. One trick that I've found to be effective when working from my home office is to play music of any kind - light jazz is best - at moderate levels in another nearby room (with the door open, of course). Although I have a nice office system and a headphone setup as well, it's much less involving and therefore less distracting to have the source further away from my work area - which, for me, is a desk, and a textbook that I ought to be revising.
Cwlondon, excellent thread! I hope you'll get a ton of responses. One trick that I've found to be effective when working from my home office is to play music of any kind - light jazz is best - at moderate levels in another nearby room (with the door open, of course). Although I have a nice office system and a headphone setup as well, it's much less involving and therefore less distracting to have the source further away from my work area - which, for me, is a desk, and a textbook that I ought to be revising.