Da Rules: I’m going to list a bunch of objects that I have sitting on and/or near my desk. If you have any of the same objects on your desk or near it (or hey even in the same room as the computer), reply with which ones, and then list some of your own.
Aquafina bottle
Lysol Disinfectant
Pencil Lead
Acetone
Hair styling glue
Glow in the dark paint
Estes “Electron Beam” rocket launcher
Oven mit
Broken glass
Sword
Firecrackers
Neosporin
Black thread
Mine:
Jeep Hubcap
Nebraska flag
Scottish flag
Hockey puck
Petrified wood
Rock hammer
Star Wars legos
Aloe plant
500’ steel tape (take that!)
Many cups of cement
A trowel
Glue stick
Roll of film
‘Finding Nemo’ cereal-box toys
Gold present bow
Graduation cap
Fake flower
Tiny snowglobe
Snail-shaped candle holder
Fully articulated wooden hand model
Bottle of bubbles
Chinchilla (yes, a live chinchilla!)
30-atriculation point Spiderman figure
Game boy SP (platinum)
car keys
alarm clock
Swiss Army knife
tweezers
Giant foam rubber Marvin the Martian helmet
black light
Maglight
cup of state quarters
Squeezy stress reliever shaped like a smiling pumpkin
Crown Royale bag full of casino tokens
Suffed Chef bear from Princess cruise lines
Disney Wodl photo frame from the year 2000 celebration
Mandarin style stuffed bear from Singapore Conrad hotel
2 stop watches
Hand painted ceramic coffee mug (from my neice)
Promotional frisbees from various software products (windows 98 and the like)
A canvas Devil head style trick or treat bucket
A dead fern
A 6" plastic eric cartman
3 squishyballs that look like the planet earth
one can of wheat grass jelly drink from Singapore (unopened)
Purple glass head with plastic leis and promotional hats on it
I have:
Roll of film, graduation cap, swiss army knife, and tweezers.
Also have alarm clock, but it’s disassembled, and a gameboy advance (not SP though).
No Steel tape, but I do have 600 yards of kevlar fiber somewhere around here.
Mine:
Lable labling the computer “computer”
Loose class pictures
Magnifying glass
Unopened tube of chapstick
Kite String
Report card
Lawn gnome
Play program
Pile of handwritten bass tabs
Yellow Super Ball
French Workbook
cell phone - got it
bracelet - got it
watch - got it
catalogue - got it
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My desk:
mini bottle of tabasco
used bottle of Fleet phosopho-soda
used bottle of Lubriderm Advanced Therapy cream lotion
bottle of “magicool”
various crafts made by my kids
transcriber
singing sunflower
It’s not glow-in-the-dark, but I have a bottle of Testor’s silver model paint and the following things are on my desk:
monitor
4 letter trays w/CD labeling supplies
Batman - TAS DVD
five different remotes
glass of Pepsi & coaster
telephone
model the original Enterprise that came out of a broken snow globe
scissors
assorted sheets of paper
keyboard
mouse
gel wrist rest
fingernail clippers
model paint brush
Bic Metal Roller pen (black)
small calculator
cable modem
model paint thinner
a couple of Compact Flash cards (8Mb & 256Mb)
network card adapter for my laptop
some store receipts
two daily calendars (Gahan Wilson & Hot Wheels)