Found a nice hack for living the life if I have to sit in front of the laptop and it isn't full blown sun in the face:
Open wide my large window, put the laptop on my wide parapet, slide a chair in, work and /cyc/ comfy, have connection to outside.
Vis-a-vis neighbor's German shepherd is checking me out constantly, birbs are getting interested in the wild cherries I am eating.
This is great.