Computer desk, besides 17" monitor, speakers, keyboard, and mouse:
small stack of papers
AM/FM/PSB/AIR radio Onion article I printed out but never pinned to the wall
dirty plate and silverware
Other desk:
phone, stapler, scotch tape, paper clip dispenser, etc.
stacks of reports I got from the company library and still haven’t re-filed
desk calendars going back about 3 years
Cosmos/M CD
Richard Strauss and Vaughan-Williams CDs
Gripmaster® hand exerciser
M&Ms dispenser
empty Planters nuts can
boxes of business cards I’ll never give out
paper bag that I forget what’s in it
probably the secret to cold fusion, buried under all those to-be-filed papers
Ok…on the actual desk, from right to left:
–Specs on our latest product
–Printer
–Scissors
–Box of tissues
–Valentine’s Day card from the Mrs.
–Random papers that I should be sorting through instead of answering polls
–Notebooks
–Half-eaten pack of Granma’s brand vanilla cookies
–Paper clip holder (empty)
–Ammunition stockpile (aka rubber bands)
–Headphones
–Paper clip chain
–Canned air
–“Movie-Of-The-Day” desk calendar
–Pen holder
–Tylenol Flu caplets
–Bottle of GlareGuard monitor cleaner
–Mouse
–My laptop
–The orange juice I’m currently drinking
–About a dozen plants
–Container of raisins
–My C.H.I.M.P.
–The rock I stole from the Grand Canyon
–Pepsi bottle top
–A coaster
–Pack of Post-Its
–A Caesar’s Pocono Resorts Solid Gold Trophy (almost!)
–Three stress balls (used for juggling, actually)
–A mini-lightsaber
–Gumby & Pokey bendables
–Tape dispenser
–I have no idea what the hell that thing is
–Hand-held blackjack game
–Phone
–Stapler
–Stack of murder mystery novels
–A copy of The Expectant Father (not yet, but soon, hopefully)
–A copy of Mike Nelson’s Death Rat
–Assorted magnets for sticking paperwork to my walls
–Rack of work-related books
–Basketball hoop
–Collection of Onion books
–Bunch of Simpsons magnets
–Big 'ol container of Twizzlers
On the filing cabinets and cubicle walls:
–A printout of this
–An “It’s Happy Bunny” sticker (the “you suck big time” one)
–Frigits Dexlue set
–A mosaic portrait of Homer Simpson made from magnetic poetry words
–A printout of my all-time favorite news article (can you guess my name?)
–Eight pictures of my wife (A bit much? Maybe. But, she’s a hottie, and I love her :))
–A picture of Emperor Palpatine
–Pictures of Rick, Vivian, Neal and Mike
–A Dilbert comic
–Tons of random bits of info I need to be able to access quickly to do my job
–My diorama of a Jay, Silent Bob, Walt Flannagan’s dog and Godzilla vs. Darth Maul, Lego Darth Vader, Lego Palpatine and Smiley Koosh Ball Man battle royal
Mostly just the usual office supplies, plus a Luttrell Psalter mug, a picture of me and my sweetie, empty soda cans, a rubber chicken I bought at a boot sale over the weekend because of this thread (not for the squeamish!), box of Kleenex, a tin of wintergreen Altoids, and half-a-stick of butter.
Work desk has all the the usual desk stuff: stapler, tape dispenser, computer, speakers, phone, etc., then…
(right to left)
Tech books
notebooks
7 disk drives
one CD-ROM drive
three power supplies
Sci-Fi anthologies
DLT Cleaning tapes
Assorted papers
Empty lunch container
Water bottle
Swiss-Miss instant cocoa packet
Opus the Penguine Stuffed Plush
Small models:
-Jupiter 2
-Chariot
-B-9 (Lost in Space’s robot)
-Space Pod
-Eagle spacecraft (from Space 1999)
-Lego race car
Across the monitor:
-Dilbert
-Dogbert
-Ratbert
-Pointy-haired Boss
-Catbert
Yellow Intel Bunny-suit guy.
Calendar (Dilbert)
Soup Cup
Larry Boy talking “action” figure (with Super-suction ears!)
Magazines
Cardboard box of Junk
Three more disk drives
Another DLT cleaning tape.
Box of defunct floppy disks.
An uncashed check for $2.75, a pack of cigarettes, The History of Germany 1815-1945 by William Carr, Perdido Street Station by China Miéville, two stacks of DVDs, a picture of my sister, a CD wallet, an empty water bottle and a ridiculous little Kirby figure.
CRAP, crab tank, fish tank for when someone has babies, 2 betta tanks books cd’s scanner printer, school stuff(x100), pens that don’t work, more crap, 3 cats, bandaids, projects…
I don’t so much have a “desk” as I do a “huge snake cage made of plywood.”
I’ll go from right to left.
-pile of lighters - dispoables and Zippos
-ash tray
-Happy Bunny energy drink (“All the energy you need to annoy everybody else”)
-Happy Bunny figurine (“I hate everything”)
-mortor and pestal (is that right? I never know whatthose things are called)
-Ozuim
-Tarot cards
-big jar of Vitamin E (great lube for earlobe stretching)
-2 glasses of water (why I have 2, I have no idea)
-small potted pine tree
-huge pile of pictures
-random paper
-random disks
-game CDs - some in cases, some loose
-cat collar
-small snake cage
-all my body jewelry (big pile)
-generic Pop Tarts
-empty Jones Soda bottle
-empty can of frosting
-nail file
-Q-Tips
-crackers
-fish food
• Two gooseneck lamps, one attached and one freestanding;
• Mail, sorted (sorta) into bills, stuff I need to keep and stuff I should get around to looking at later;
• Clock radio (defunct except for clock)
• Inbox with journal, writing implements, notepads, scissors, tape, stapler, staple remover and a Schlumberger plastic gimme triangle with sides for measuring water saturation, % porosity and a four decade logarithmic scale;
• 486 desktop computer which hasn’t been fired up in a few years, but on top of which sits my current monitor (tower is on the floor below) as well as keyboard and mouse/pad;
• Dying Caller ID box;
• Vertical file with once important stuff in it, supported in the back by a drumstick;
• Forlorn stack of Zip discs;
• Ashtray, pack of Marlboro Lights, lighter and a rum and tonic;
• Shoebox for this year’s dealt with bills;
• Photocopy of the hard part of a map I’m working on (not going to fool with it tonight);
• A pile of business cards;
• My Exhibitor badge from an exposition I attended the week before last;
• Remainder of my hydrocodone 'scrip from my broken rib last month;
• Another inbox, three-level with the top containing bank statements and stamps (34¢!), the middle containing flotsam and the bottom, jetsam;
• Radio Shack telephone;
• Owner’s Manual for my car;
• $518 in coins, in various Tupperware-like containers, as well as, I’d guess, another uncounted ~$50 worth (what am I going to ever do with that collection?);
• I left out a few things.
