I saw this post on the top news page: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051217" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051217</a> so I decided I'd submit my own story of what a self-employed workday looks like.  I originally wrote this post for friends and family, but hope it can be useful / interesting to others considering taking their projects full-time!