What's on your desk?

[Flyingcursor]

As I sit here contemplating making supper I noticed my desk. It's pretty cluttered.

On the little shelf thingy over my old moniter I have two disconnected speakers and a sub-woofer. I have:
a praying mantis finger puppet
a stuffed frog
two plastic frogs
A real German beer stein.
A can of compressed air for dust removal.
A picture of dead soldiers from Antietam.
A bear with leather hood and a whip.
Two scented candles
A woeful Eyeore.

Better yet:



The left side of my desk. Note the hammerd dulcimer hammer. I can't find the other one and those are my favorite hammers. Also a tuner which comes in handy for hammered dulcimers. Note also the can of mixed nuts which are easier to eat when playing dulcimer than when playing flute.





the "hutch" over my antique monitor. Note the small bottle of "Fighting Cock" bourbon and Eyeore.



The right side of the desk. Note the Mardi Gras mask to the right and the careless pile of CDs. Also a Tahquamenon Falls Brewery mug. Void of beer at the moment.




A closeup of the mantis finger puppet. Isn't she cute?



Dead Confederate soldiers at Antietam (Sharpsburg for you rebs out there). I took a picture from that same spot and it looks the same now except theres a cannon instead of a cassion.



My dominatrix bear. A gift from my wife on Valentine's day several years ago. Her name is Helen after Helen of Troy. She's actually a "he" and has a thing for Eyeore. Eyeore doesn't seem to mind though. He's asexual.

[emmline]

Well, first of all, I hardly ever work at my desk. I'm usually on a stool at the kitchen counter. And there's a pile of assorted pens to the left of my iBook. Several post-it notes, which say stuff like "Make Gabe doc app't."
A stack of assorted paperwork including legal pads in a couple sizes, an HP12C calculator, the notebook containing scribbled notes re my writing project, another notebook in which I keep track of financial stuff. Usually a glass of water. And possibly a cat.

[DCrom]

My desk is loaded (and hardly visible). A partial list:

2 speakers and subwoofer.

An empty chinese tea tin, kept for its ornamental value.

A stuffed monkey made from stockings (a gift from my mother)

A stuffed frog missing one button eye ("", but 45+ years old)

A Chinese mouth organ (tourist piece, but playable)

An Eskimo ulu knife (picked up in Alaska)

3 grade school ceramic art projects from my younger daughter.

A small crackle-finish Chinese celandon vase.

A hand-painted Chinese snuff bottle

A couple of Chinese "ivory" (actually, plastic) carvings

Several computer books

Ceramic vase with several cheap whistles

Chinese tea tin holding several more inexpensive whistles

Empty cardboard whisky tube holding several C and Bb whistles

Syn D and Humphrey C & D whistles ready at hand

Oil for my flute

Computer monitor

Telephone

[Congratulations]

It would take years to catalog the amount of crap on my desk.

[Innocent Bystander]

An Inflatable Cactus.

Pagan Federation Mousemat (that sticks like b*ggery)

Ikea Mousemat (that works)

China Teapot and China teacup and some GenmaiCha in a Ceramic container.

Four or five coasters

Can containing Pens, pencils, scissors, and other implements

Big pile of paper with details of calls I've sorted but may need to refer to.

I *used* to have a small painted figurine from Warhammer. It's nominally my son's but he never played with them. When my wife put them in the garage, I rescued this one. When it was on my desk the cleaners smashed it so many times it's in the drawer now. I think it's a Chaos Marine.


Also in my drawer are the massage slippers I got for Christmas.

The laptop, the whistles, two tunebooks and the top of a Christmas tree are in my laptop bag.

[Lambchop]

Sigh.

44 textbooks, 2 medical dictionaries, and an English dictionary
4 ring binders
2 spiral bound notebooks with buff paper
2 legal pads with buff paper
2 brushed stainless steel desk lamps with articulating arms (adjustable)
monitor, keyboard, mouse, Gateway mousepad, 2 speakers
telephone, small folding alarm clock, Kleenex boutique tissues, small stapler, 2 tubes hand lotion, pot of lip gloss
statistical calculator
2 short black mesh holders with paperclips and paper clamps.
2 black mesh pencil holders, one with colored pens and plain pens, and a Meg whistle in D, the other with highlighters in various colors.
One package of Staedtler ergosoft colored pencils.
One package of sticky 3 x 5 cards (like sticky notes, only not so useful)
Several different types of sticky notes in fruit colors
A desk-sized Day-Timer in a ring binder
A heavy china teacup, the Chinese kind, with more clips
A crystal juice glass with a Waterman Phileas, a Waterman Hemisphere, 3 Pilot disposable, and 1 Pilot non-disposable fountain pens, and 3 antique Esterbrook fountain pens, all of which I restored and work just dandy
A tupperware box with fountain pen parts, ink, and cartridges.
A couple folded paper towels
A Roy Kirkham rose design bone china tea mug containing Barry's tea

Oh, and a couple Staedtler 9505 mechanical pencils and eraser sticks
A Beanie Baby mallard duck named "Jake," and a small Gund lamb.

[hyldemoer]

No desk since my mr. bought me a lap top
unless a drawing table counts.

[Congratulations]

unless a drawing table counts.

Is that where you pile all your crap?

[Cynth]

Well, it's a card table. An old Singer sewing machine table. My desk is so buried in stuff I can't use it. I have:

• a lap top
  old computer
  old monitor
  a multiple outlet box
  battery charger
  dead mouse
  mouse and mouse pad
  some little black box with cords coming out each end
  whistle
  Shoe Goo
  batteries for something
  a small velveteen bag that says Targus on it
  Q-tip
  magnifying glass
  2 pencils
  1 pen
  dried up silver ink pen
  1 red paper clip, 1 white paper clip
  old birthday card
  dust
  a cork
  tips on how to hit b - c#- d on the whistle
  paper with numbers written on it, no idea what they mean
  obsolete software diskettes in case
  many zip disks with ancient backups on them
  some thing for backing up your computer
  two dead post it notes
  part of a broken ring

It's so depressing.

[cowtime]

In my defense, my desk is Unusually messy tonight. (yeah right) But, it is not the desk that I actually use to do stuff like pay bills, etc. that's on another wall in the same room.

Let's see, a glass of wine, piano books, WWII books, pictures, and a bunch of "stuff".

Here it is in all it's horrible glory-

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[Wanderer]

As of Friday, I've had one of these on my desk

[hyldemoer]

unless a drawing table counts.

Is that where you pile all your crap?

Crap?
If you're talking about my stuff, the usual office sort of stuff all has a place for it to be put away to (filed) so I can find it when I need it.

I've found that if my environment is too cluttered its like a very loud noise and I can't think.

We have a lot of book cases and "what not" shelves in my house, and all my kitchen cabinets have glass doors so its not as minimalist as one might imagine.
The only place I relish disorder is in my garden.

[anniemcu]

i was going to post a thread on "What's the weirdest object on your dest right now?"... interesting...


Top shelf:
Box of Momma Possum's Bass Stuff,
Playskool horses(2), cow, cowboy and bull from waaaaay back,
two books on Celtic Knotwork,
a stained glass chicken lamp,
a spelling dictionary (which, you will note, I seldom remember to use )
A small figure of Portia from Willow,
An Eowyn figure in full armour,
a stack of old drawings and paintings by various members of the family,
and my prize canister (empty) of Airtight Bag Seasoning.
an empty ( ) canister from Chimes Ginger Chews
and a fairie pendant on a silk chord.

[mutepointe]

my two cents:
1. my desk is a vanity. it's a mess. for the mousepad, i pulled out the top drawer and put a block of wood on top of the drawer. desktop space is at a premium. my mousepad is one from a company that fired me. i received this as a christmas present a few years after. i still do business with them. every time i spill something on the mousepad, i don't care. i keep my hall crystal flute between the keyboard and the monitor. an actually safe space. there are a few harmonicas.

i am in the middle of a project. i have saved my guitar strings for ages. i play a 12-string acoustic and have used D'addario strings forever. i could have kicked them in the butt when they color coded the brass beads on their strings. i made my wife a necklace with the previous brass beads. the D'addario strings are not colors that i would want to make a necklace out of but i have more than enough beads now to make a rosary. each decade of the rosary will be a different color. even guitar players never recognized what the brass beads were. folks who use D'addario strings may recognize the rosary for what it is.

now to comment on you folks:
1. i believe lambchop's desk is as nice and neat as her message was.
2. congratulations likes to use the word "crap." a lot.
3. the wanderer's desk is too clean. he's either OCD or has someone clean up after him.
4. cynth, it's ok to throw things away, especially dead mice. do you have a use for that mouse?
5. Dcrom wants to be chinese so bad, it hurts.
6. the rest of you have no chance in getting your desk featured in home and garden magazine.

[Cynth]

How odd. I just came across a photo of Francis Bacon in his studio.