Left to right
broken zip drive
post-it pad
21 inch monitor
Set of Microsoft MCP Action figures, ready to battle for the freedom to Inovate
business cards
3 laptop network pigtails
book on SMS 2.0
box of acuwipes
floppy drive from an HP Omnibook 3000
second 21 inch monitor
another postit pad
box of floppy disks, unopened
speaker
Docking station for a HP Omnibook 5700
17 inch monitor for docking station
keyboard for docking station
Prozac mousepad
mouse
second mouse
powersupply for IBM Thinkpad
Powersupply for dockingstation
powersupply for hadheld touchscreen pc
two more speakers
ghost image for an E-vectra
a bunch of cable
another laptop pigtail
another 17" monitor
another mouse
headphones
another keyboard
HP Kayak Xu
IBM 300 pl
handheld touchscreen pc
picture of my son
bottle of ozarka water that a coworker gave me
time sheet
scsi cable
another keyboard(the one I am typing on)
screwdriver
another time sheet
Oh, well… My cubicle:
A Raisin box, empty
Area code map
Teletubbies (all four of them)
Nice mushy plaque from my hubby
Pictures of my kids
Family picture
Picture of my grandparents
Nameplate
Powerpuff Girls print
Wedding picture
Magic 8 Ball
Picture of me when I was 6
Clock
Powerpuff Girls Calendar
Powerpuff Girls mousepad
Curious George toy
Taz poster
Marble box
Button with big teddy bear hugging little teddy bear, saying “Cherish the Child”
Dorm room desk:
[ul]
[li]19 inch Viewsonic monitor[/li][li]Epson Perfection scanner[/li][li]Nail clipper kit[/li][li]Braun electric razor[/li][li]Air Force surplus CPU 26A/P flight computer… essentially a mil spec E-6B[/li][li]Water bottle[/li][li]HP Deskjet printer[/li][li]Computer speakers[/li][li]A small wire basket I found in the trashroom one day, filled with pens, pencils, markers, tape, pushpins, paperclips, staples, and a cheap pair of headphones… all without any sort of organization[/li][li]An aluminum cylinder I machined on a lathe[/li][li]Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 CD[/li][li]Keyboard[/li][li]Intellimouse Explorer optical mouse, complete with glowing base[/li][li]Spring powered Ford Focus toy[/li][li]My “key” from Tau Beta Pi initiation[/li][li]Wisconsin football helmet mug… from the 1994 Rose Bowl… filled with loose change[/li][li]Several grams of dust[/li][/ul]
• An IMac draped with three strands of Mardi Gras beads from a co-worker who went to New Orleans and for whom I covered while she was gone.
• An empty box of Aunt Sally’s Creole Pralines from the same lucky co-worker.
• A photo of my fiancée from this summer when we visited a local falls.
• A mug full of pens and pencils. The mug shows the Warner Bros. gang in baseball attire.
• A publicity still from “The Twilight Zone,” showing Burgess Meredith, Patricia Crowley and Robert Sterling from an episode called “The Printer’s Devil.”
• A small hunk of wood with its core removed containing stones, shells and other bits of memories.
• A small stuffed Wild Thing from “Where the Wild Things Are.”
• The Oxford American Dictionary.
• The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual.
• A growing pile of paperclips.
my desk at home
My PC, speakers, scanner and printer
A bottle of Hugo Boss eau de toilette
An empty blue tumbler
A red marker
My mobile phone battery
My employment contract and the envelope it came in
Some postcards illustrated by Sara Midda
A letter from my friend in Ireland
A set of X-Files Season 1 videos
3 CDs - Blur, Tori Amos, Einsturzende Neubauten
Lets see:
Simpsons desk calender
Simpsons coffee mug
Another coffee mug
Dilutable orange juice
coffee stain, coffee stain
phone
coffee stain etc.
From left to right:
Small stack of files for ongoing projects.
Business card holder - a gift from my neice.
Name plate.
Pewter Jefferson Cup - a going away gift from previous job.
Onyx paperweight.
Glass of water.
Coaster - I have this thing about rings on furniture.
Monitor
CPU - On the CPU: small clock, tape dispenser, stapler, a framed Far Side cartoon (Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 - Cartoon shows scientists “inventing” the platypus), a sterling silver platypus (SO went to Australia to see her parents and all I got was a silver platypus), a roll of red tape (I work for the gov’t - get it?).
Telephone
On credenza behind me:
Bose WAVE CD Player
Lamp
3 pictures of the Queen of the Universe (my daughter)
In/Out box
My briefcase
My Notary Public certificate
One Christmas Cactus
One Jade plant
One spider plant
One Anguilla plant (don’t know the real name - I took a cutting in Anguilla and rooted it when I got home).
A foam Goofy pen holder (present from a former coworker)
The flags of Sweden & Norway in a little plastic holder (present from my Mom)
Picture of my family
Cigar (still wrapped)
A rubber chicken
A cloth frisbee (company give-away)
A blow-up Scream doll (from the painting, not the movie)
A small Christmas tree decorated with paper Swedish and Norwegian flags and gold, silver, red and blue star garlands
A butt-ugly candy dish (currently holding Hersey Hugs)
A calculator-calendar-clock thing with the times for 16 different cities worldwide on it
A Goofy mug
Hand lotion
Carmex
The usual work stuff -laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and paper, lots and lots of paper
Been here for almost 2 years, too.
On top of the computer monitor:
4 small beanie-baby-type doggies (I love dogs)
-one dalmation
-one black
-one beagle
-one jack-russell terrier look-a-like
The CPU under the monitor plays host to:
-one small red pokemon character, a gift from a crazy old man on the bus
-one small porcelain german shepherd
-one plastic cheetah
-a pair of earrings
-another stuffed dog
-a giraffe
-stuffed Little John from Disney’s Robin Hood
-a blue bunny rabbit (spontaneous gift from SO when I wasn’t feeling well)
Next to the CPU:
-Sylvester & Tweety fast food meal toy
-baseball from a Brewers game at County Stadium
-3 Duke Ellington CDs, 3 Count Basie CDs, 1 Sarah Vaughan CD
-cream colored bear (valentines gift from SO)
-picture of me & mom
-picture of me & sis
-picture of me & SO
-Picture montage of me & old friends from my Senior year of HS
-a candy-cane reindeer
-a “poem” that my SO wrote for me
That’s all the non-office-related items that are on my desk.
Well, I have the Glow in the Dark Computer Goddess and the Computer Voodoo Doll
Now that I finally made it back to work:
On the monitor-
[li] Squeaky Buddhist monk (see my other post)[/li][li] Orgy of lizards (see my other post)[/li][li] Vertibrae from a turtle[/li][li] Plastic eagle[/li][li] Plastic condor[/li][li] Map of new area codes in Florida (14 total)[/li][li] Assorted sticky notes of stuff I should be doing right now[/li][li] Picture of my family[/li][li] Monitor wiper brush from “Jacksonville Convention & Visitors Bureau”[/li]
On the desk-
[li] Computer and support equipment[/li][li] Plain blue mouse pad[/li][li] Books[/li][li] Office equipment (paper punch, tape, letter openers, et al)[/li][li] Far too many papers[/li][li] File folders[/li][li] Picture of me chewing a leaf[/li][li] Picture of me with a Florida Panther[/li][li] Unprocessed mail[/li][li] Plastic jar of store-brand petroleum jelly[/li][li] “Ask Dr. Science” coffee mug (side facing out says “I know more than you do!”)[/li][li] Spider plant[/li][li] Small oak tree (really - some company sent us a seedling!)[/li] Bottle of essential oils - lavender, orange, fir, eucalyptus