No cat, I am a dog person who does like cats, and I have had them in the past, just not right now.

Computer at work (where I am now) is on a desk in a long skinny room with everything sideways in it, too many books, too many "file piles" (I *hate* filing). Computer adornments: A Darwin fish, pictures of my twins and my mom and of myself as a child, a Mugatu, an Enterprise in a snowball thing, an Eiffel Tower, a Statue of Liberty brandishing a jalapeno pepper (parent company in NYC), a mouse (to remind me not to send those scathing emails), a lizard, a little Ceylonese elephant (for kids to play with if they come here), and a really nasty picture of my X2B to remind me of why I fled. A picture of a colleague's child who was even more preemie than mine and is doing OK. Scattered about: Coffee cups (I drink that awful decaf a lot). Little reminder cards. A lady Waldo (of the Find Waldo) and an American flag are stuck onto my pen holder thingie. A black armband with a jolly roger on it (leftover from some layoff-goodbye party) is wrapped around my computer base. Old and new catalogs of what we publish. On the wall, many many annotated maps, my work-related certificates, and my Who's Who plaque. Yes, I am in the Who's Who of Professionals, quelle idée.

At home: the computer sits on an old desk with the drawer stuck in it upside down to serve as a keyboard tray. It has the twins' artwork on it (caterpillars made out of egg carton parts and things like that), an old beanbag frog from my adolescence, a pile of CDs that never seem to make it back into their jewel cases, piles of diskettes, work-related papers. The desk is in what the landlord called the dining room, which I call the far end of the living room or, sometimes, the twins' playroom as all their stuff is kept at that end of that room.
The lighting in my office is terrible, I tend not to turn the light on as I do have a window, with view of a roof and a deciduous blossoming tree that is worth looking at most of the time. At home I have a single overhead light in the playroom which I also tend to leave off while computing.

I probably mudcat 4:1 at work:home, since at work I have a hard Internet connection and at home, only a modem. Tut tut. Will deny all if I have to...