At work: L-shaped desk in an L-shaped office. 20" LCD monitor on one leg of the L, both legs of which are covered with papers, books, correspondence, and things awaiting either their time or their disposal. 140-foot ceilings and 10 foot high windows (2 in my desk part of the L and one WIDE one in the other part). Straight ahead is a door in a half-high wall that looks out to the clock above the sink. Antique-looking ceiling fan to help with the heating and cooling; BA and MS diplomas, cert for kissing the Blarney Stone, expired "license" to be a librarian in Kentucky, rubbing of Shakespeare's epitaph, cert for "Seven Habits" training, clock made from an Idaho license plate, sandpainting of Father Sky, icon of St. Michael the Archangel, and antique (1880s) cert from the "National Library Association" (this was a sales gimmick). Oh, yeah, a stuffed salmon hangs from the bottom of the ceiling fan and a stuffed Grinch sits atop the half-wall over the door.

At home: a rectangular office with a closet which contains a "gun safe", archery equipment, fishing stuff, and totes and boxes filled with huntin' and fishin' gear and my fencing jacket and plastron hang on hangers therein. There is a smallsword (dull, but pointed) and a rapier (dull, bated) on the wall. Two doors, one passing into the "Great Room" and the other into the Sun Room/Guestroom/2d kitchen area. Six 6h x 3w feet bookcases in a shallow U, filled with books. On the south wall a glassbrick window and my desk (an interior door set atop two 3 drawer file cabinets. A computer, 17" LCD monitor, printer holder with 2 shelves below supports an old HP 4L laser printer; this sits perpendicular to an old wooden dynamite box holding "ready reference" books. Turn around from the door-desk and you find yourself at an old oak "teachers desk" that, like every other level surface, is covered with books, papers, bottles of oil, file folders, and other detritus. In from of the desk is a low bookcase that contains various things like a fencing mask and my "King Tut" hat; books on fencing top the low bookcase that joins at a right angle. A fencing saber and three epees fill the holes in the top of the PVC pipe that holds these bookcases up, and there is also a collection of cowboy poetry books.

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