What's on your desk?

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:01 pm

Cranberry wrote:I don't know how to say this nicely, but...seriously, you people have too much stuff.

It's all relative my friend. Some may think a bowl of flavored condoms and chewing gum to be a bit of an excess.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:48 pm

chrisoff wrote:Right at home now, let's see what we've got:

phone, spare glasses, various CD ROMs of spurious origin, guitar picks, bluetooth dongle, 19" CRT monitor, glow in the dark stars for my living room wall, football manager 2006, a letter from nominet, cd pens, gloves, operation flashpoint, candles, assorted minidiscs, minidisc player, 2 pairs of old glasses, notepad, assorted letters, hammer, tape measure, half life, iPaq, speakers, sunglasses, roadie wrench, iRiver, 13amp fuses, digital camera, paper hole punch, koala bear, scientific calculator, sellotape, various lighters, toenail clippers, football tickets, address book, ibuprofen, lemsip, bell for bicycle, thingumy for counting footsteps, prescription slips, various manuals, alan keys, logitech attack 3 joystick and a 16/2 mixing desk.

Dunno where I'm going to put everything when I get rid of this thing...

hey chris. are you trying to corner the market on eyeglasses or do you think an eyeglass shortage is eminent?

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:22 am

I tend to hoard things, never get round to throwing them out or donating them to charity. In the back of my mind there's always a little voice saying "you could break all your current pair and your spares then you might need your old ones to walk to the opticians".

Also I once had to spend a day wearing my prescription sunglasses 'cause I'd misplaced my proper glasses down the side of my bed.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:47 am

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

Ditto.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:12 am

*Sigh*... OK.

At work...

ON desk:

Desktop computer and speakers
Laptop computer
2 bottles of water, 1 of diet Coke
1/2 a pack of Lockets
1 each: Gen D, Feadog nickel D, Blue Sweetone
Desk diary
3 heavy purple Totex guitar/mandolin picks
Video camera
post it pad
phone
cell phone
CDs - Steven Jesse Bernstein, Bob Marley, Tom Waits
Stapler
Conference guidebook
3 writing pads
3 ring-binder files
Intelli clip on guitar tuner
11 pens (various)
1 mug
Smallish glass chess set
Stack of random papers
Unshaped bone mandolin nut blank
2 bulldog clips
Mousemat
Coaster
Pack of aspirin
Mandolin chord book
Clipboard
Large toy spider
Rubber foot from (I think) a music stand

BY desk:

Crafter mandolin
Laptop bag
Mandolin gigbag
8 Empty water bottles waiting for recycling
Eko guitar (not mine)
Stack of car license plates (about 30)
2 boxes of car license plates (about 30 or 40 per box)
Uke (not mine)
3 recorders in various registers (not mine)
Camera tripod
Castanets

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:09 am

Everything must be within reach at a moment's notice. This philosophy guides my ever increasing pile of stuff; stuff that must be within reach at a moment's notice. One cannot afford to be distracted searching for something when the muse is on them to create or explore. The thing desired/required must instantly come to hand.

This is not debatable.

djm

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:08 am

djm wrote:Everything must be within reach at a moment's notice. This philosophy guides my ever increasing pile of stuff; stuff that must be within reach at a moment's notice. One cannot afford to be distracted searching for something when the muse is on them to create or explore. The thing desired/required must instantly come to hand.

This is not debatable.

djm

It's obvious computer knowledge (and procedure).

Random access methods are quickest!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:17 am

Cranberry wrote:I don't know how to say this nicely, but...seriously, you people have too much stuff.

I agree...especially since this really isn't my desk

I only use it when Mr Izz isn't here and in need of it. Honestly, though, there are mostly books on here that he uses on a daily basis. Other than that, it's pictures that the kids have drawn, and other little odds and ends. There are also some thing that really need to be thrown out, but quite frankly, today I'm just tired of being the one to throw out everything

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:54 am

Hush, Izz! They'll take away your "Flylady" badge!

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:26 am

No desk at home. We got rid of it when we switched to a laptop. A wireless router lets us use the laptop anywhere in the house and still be online.

At work, my desk is fairly neat: computer keyboard and dual flat-screen monitors, phone, stapler, pen, post-it note pad, box of Kleenex, water cup and tea mug.

hyldemoer · Post by **hyldemoer** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:17 am

jsluder wrote:No desk at home. We got rid of it when we switched to a laptop. A wireless router lets us use the laptop anywhere in the house and still be online.

Yup, we can haul the thing to the toilet with us if we want.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:54 pm

hyldemoer wrote:
jsluder wrote:No desk at home. We got rid of it when we switched to a laptop. A wireless router lets us use the laptop anywhere in the house and still be online.
Yup, we can haul the thing to the toilet with us if we want.

On the internet, no one knows you're sittin' on the crapper.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:34 pm

dfernandez77 wrote:
Cranberry wrote:I don't know how to say this nicely, but...seriously, you people have too much stuff.
It's all relative my friend. Some may think a bowl of flavored condoms and chewing gum to be a bit of an excess.

I understand...but at least the condoms and gum have a purpose.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:43 pm

chrisoff wrote:I tend to hoard things, never get round to throwing them out or donating them to charity. In the back of my mind there's always a little voice saying "you could break all your current pair and your spares then you might need your old ones to walk to the opticians".

Also I once had to spend a day wearing my prescription sunglasses 'cause I'd misplaced my proper glasses down the side of my bed.

i've worn eyeglasses since the second grade. i always have on me the pair of glasses that i am wearing, usually, my bifocals. then i keep my prescription sunglasses in my car. that way, if i break my eyeglasses on my face, i have a spare pair on me, no matter where i am at. then i keep a set of my previous prescription and previous prescription sunglasses in my sock drawer. all the other eyeglasses go to the lions club.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:47 pm

Cberry wrote:I understand...but at least the condoms and gum have a purpose.

Yes, you can chew them for hours and hours and the flavour just lasts and lasts.

djm