So Where IS Your Computer???

Subject: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:01 PM

I was intrigued by something that came up in Allan and Bill's Excellent Adventure. I have often wondered myself as to the location of other's computers. Allan is checking out everyone's as he goes around the country just so he has a little more "personal" feel. We have pictures at the Resource Pages so we know what a person looks like, but I often think of you all as sitting and typing away as I am now....and wonder where are you? What does the place look like?

We have a large frame home built in 1912 and it has four rooms downstairs. In the front is a living room and dining room and to the rear is the kitchen and another room, possibly used originally for a dining room or parlor. That's where I am. We use it as a games/junk room. There is a TV under the window with the kids' video games hooked up (we also have an addition on the back of the house with a large den and garage and the family TV is down there in the den). The computer desk is a mess and sits in the corner across from the TV on the opposite side of the room. There is generally a Weimaraner under the desk at my feet and the cockatiel's cage hangs on another wall. A few cats wander in and out, sleep in various spots, or occupy the window. One guitar hangs in a gig bag about 2 foot to my right, easily slid out anytime. The carpet is gray and completely trashed (kids/pets, lazy Dad). I have a standard kind of steno chair with armrests and a Gateway 450.

Anyway, that's me....where I am right now. How about you?

Spaw

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: MMario
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:14 PM

at w*rk, compaq laptop in a docking station, three phones, empty coffee cup (my new office area only brews DECAF! *shudder*) cubby walls covered with 4 sets of phone lists, 2 schedules, 3 district responsibility lists,local ip address list, server ip address list, inactive ip address list, vacation schedule, district rep list; another laptop in the process of being rebuilt;spare docking station, two cupboards full of references, a box full of empty caffiene bottles and cans, pager.

at home, Dell tower in the corner of the dining room, usually piled high with Game CD's from my B-i-L and nephew.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:21 PM

My bedroom, very very small and full of practical wood stroage because it's so small! Currently can't see the floor because it's covered in notes for my A-level exams - which finish TOMORROW! (so i probably shouldn't be messing on the net.....) And my computer is an orange iBook (she says, showing off) which i love so so so dearly and cannot quite believe my luck!

From my window I can see a hillside/'village' green, although it's hardly what you'd imagine - so steep you have to climb it, kinda overgrown and covered in trees. Very chilled here, people walk past singing! And a huge magpie just flew past the window....
jayohjo XXX

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:22 PM

In the smallest box room ever invented...which is now an office at home.

There are shelves stacked with far too many books, a cupboard with too many books, and a spare set of bedroom drawers, with too many books in the drawers.

There is a picture I drew when I was a kid (I am now 27) a sleeping bag, a stereo. One cat (who is chasing the cursor round the screen, and the other cat lazing in the window.

any available space has too many papers piled up on it.

And there is a sewing box neglected as I refuse to use it.

Oh, nearly forgot, I have 5 old fashioned trays of lead type too in here - the kind used in the olden days to print stuff. I have all the type that goes in them too - and some wooden block type. All is used for when I decided to do some paintings for once.

An old defunct black and white tv, which none of us can bare to part with (sentimental reasons) and a big huge pile of rolled up architectual drawings I am meant to be working on!

Ella

(it's my mess, and I love it!)

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:22 PM

Oh, Spaw, good idea...though, it was Bill was so curious as soon as he came into my house, "Show me your computer, please, where do you sit to Mudcat" or something like that. I thought after that, it would be neat if we all sent a picture in of ourselves *at the helm*...make it easier for us to envision each other.

Our house is a ranch with full basement. Walk right into the living room, with the doorway to the downstairs across the room. Take a few steps forward, turn left and go down the hall to the first door on the right, which is a small bedroom with one wall covered in baby wallpaper, obviously used as a nursery once.

On the wall to your left is an old wooden typewriter stand with the hard drive balanced across the lower bar, the scanner on the top of it, then one of those black, modern racks perched on its spindly legs, holding the cassette dubber with the mixer on top of it. Next to all of that is an old library table with a bridge-type shelf which rests on top of it that Rog made for me, which has the printer and several reference ring binders on it. On the table is the monitor and various papes, pens, etc. It is always in disarray and there are folded up baby blankets on either side of it for cats-napping, as well as a cat on top of the monitor most of the time.

The rest of the room is filled with two small bookshelves, overflowing, another, older library table piled high with jewelry-making paraphernalia and more books. The windows, which are opposite of the computer command center, have one of those tower cat condos, then two tall lamp tables which have cat baskets on them, with more baby *blankees* to soften the little darlings' napping.

The door is always open and has my drum hanging on it; the baritone uke which I need to practise sits next to it and the violin, which I treasure, sits safely up on the jewelry table to avoid mishaps between the cats and the dog who is always right behind my chair and thus gets startled mightily if he isn't paying attention when I back up my regular old padded office chair to get up and start the blood flowing again.

Oh, the 'puter? It's an HP "Pavillion", 2 years old.

katlaughing!

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:23 PM

ooo forgot

my laptop is right there in the middle of my muddles

with enough space round it to swing the cat that is currently chasing the cursor

E

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:40 PM

Oops! The first door on your right in my house is the bathroom!! Tiny indeed, for an office! "To the left, to the left, I meant!"**BG** and, my keyboard rests on a nifty little shelf Rog made and attached to the table, so that my shoulders don't get sore, while keeping my chair at a good height for my neck (it gets stiff easily!)

Question: how many of you have lots of light in your computer room and how many keep the light to a minimum? I read somewhere, when my eyes were really getting fatigued, that low light was best, so I just have one floor lamp which I can angle down onto papers and the keyboard. It seems to have helped and that is pretty much how my home offices have always been, but I've worked in places where there is a lot of lighting and outside light both...have you all noticed any difference and which do you prefer?

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: MMario
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:44 PM

low light by preference. My old office I could shut the lights off and use ambiant daylight. Here I am stuck with 20 other people in the room and my eyes HURT at the end of the day. oh well, maybe "da big boss" will realize this was a stupid move and put me back were I wuz....

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:45 PM

The "Thing in the basement" Tiny window, queen sized bed (for visiting friends and relatives) The laptop and printer is on an old school desk painted light blue (milk paint style) wooden chair to match. The room is carpeted in beige and painted a bland white. Kids toys and books scattered around an old grey chesterfield and chair; a glider rocker in oak with blue cushions and an oval oak coffee table; a small chest of drawers and a locker. To complete the scene, an old steamer trunk with an old CD player and speakers on top, with CD's and Tapes scattered around. The kids have the room as a den with a TV and VCR when I am not "Cattin".. Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Mbo
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 04:56 PM

Mine is in my bedroom, a Compaq Presario, on a fold-up computer table 1 1/3 feet from my bed behind me. The computer table is strewn with brass slides, pens, Richard Thompson and ELO tapes, and a stack of song tabs by the printer. On top of the CPU are my headphones, and my Philadelphia Flyers ballcap with my Mudcat Pin on it. On the floor under the table is classical guitar footstand, a radio, and a 80 lb tupperware box full of folders of music tabs arranged by artsit and genre. The floor nest to it is scattered with hundreds of music tabs...hard to walk in the room. And an upside down carboard box with classical guitar music books, old songbooks from used books stores, and Rise Up Singing on it--AKA my table when Mudcat Radio is on.
There's a small table to the left, with my stereo, piled high with tapes and CDs, the shelf underneath stacked precariously with more CDs and tapes and even MORE tapes on the floor in a foot radius out from the table. Behind me is the bed, with my guitar leaning against it, new and used guitar strings & an electric keyboard on it.
Behind me to the right is my bulletin board, with the Scotland calendar, and the antique violin calender my cousin who died gave me, and religious articles, including the prayer "St.Patrick's Breastplate".
Then there's a chair with folded clothes piled on it, the floor around it covered with more folded clothes, my violin in it's case, another radio, the AMAZING MUDCAT GUITAR in the corner. Then a closet off to the right, with a set of baby pipes hanging on the door. Closet overflowing with hanging clothes, tape boxes, plastic bags, and stacks of papers, drawings, wood scraps, foamcore & matte board scraps--leftovers from past art courses.
And then the door. Bye.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:07 PM

My computer stuff is in part of my living room. here it is

Jon

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: MK
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:09 PM

I have a finished basement in my home and half the basement is a family room with a dividing wall and door separting it from my office / studio.

My office/studio which is about 20' X 15' is L-shaped. In the "L" section is a computer workstation, with a filing cabinet to one side, and a sliding door walk out to my back yard.

On the other side of the walkout is my large desk, with the computer I use and other assorted clutter on the desk. (I like the clutter and hate when my wife cleans and rearranges everything because then I can never find anything.) Against the wall on my right side is a custom built wall unit with multiple shelves recessed into the wall and extending back the length of my office.

Contained within the shelves are mostly video tapes of the many types of acts I book for corporate events, as well as a section containing audio tapes, guitar string packages and various computer spare parts. Behind my desk and towards the rear of the office is a rack containing three keyboards and a drum machine and in an smaller L to that, a table containing digital recording equipment. There is also a stereo unit in the wall unit, as well as wall mounted speakers in front of me at my desk, higher up on the wall as well as another set of rear wall-mounted speakers in the recording section.


(There is also an 8 X 10 framed color photo of Rick Fielding in cowboy hat, sitting atop a childs' coin- operated horsey ride in a shopping mall somewhere, autographed with the phrase Yours Always, Rick, that is on my desk. I tend to think the handwritten remarks were directed to my old D-28 more so than to me personally. Helps me sleep better at night thinking that.*BG*)

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:31 PM

I'm a cube rat at work where I do most of my posting. I share an office with two women - one of them insists on playing something called "Cool Jazz" all day which means I get to hear Kenny G crap. Two large windows to my left that look out on an empty field. Photos in my cube of my wife Bretta of course, my neices in Atlanta and their kids. Also Mississippi John Hurt , the Weavers, my mandolin and guitar, and photos of places I've been to with Bretta - Key West { Honeymoon } , Cancun, Lake Tahoe, New Orleans, San Francisco, Grand Teatons, San Antonio { going there this weekend } ect.

An old mandolin is on the wall in case I get a musical idea or need to practice { all the time}. Also a Winslow Homer print - Hurricane Bahamas. And a picture of the Mandolin Quartet of Ft Worth from 1898.

At home our computer is in the office in the room to the left of the entrance. It looks out on the front yard. Walls are lined with Scandia shelving { the BEST shelving in the world } and it contains about two thousand LP's , uncounted CD's, countless books and bills ect. Also a queen Anne couch , a folding rope chair , my old Fender Champ amp, and one or both cats { Gypsy and Jasmine } trying to crawl into my lap because they can't understand why I would rather type than pet or scratch them behind the ears. Got the picture??

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Rollo
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:31 PM

My Computer is placed in my flat's living room, which is about 4 X 5 m. The wallpaper is yellow, and when you peep out of the window (brown store) you look down a quiet side street in southern hamburg with qiete a lot of big trees. The room itself is dominated by a bookshelf full of books and thingies. Every surface in this room is covered with something... even more books, ship models, castles cut out from paper kits, CDs, Songbooks, odds and ends... Between it you can find my long bow, arrows, a dagger, some fake swords, a wooden mug, bowl and spoon... My Instruments are all packed into their cases to keep them safe. They rest under the book shelf where they are out of the way. The only space left uncovered is one corner where my oven is placed. But the house owner promised I will get central heat this summer.

While I'm computing, there is allways the telly adding some background noise, my budgie is allready sleeping next room. And sometimes I look up to see a reprint of Caspar D. Friedrich's Picture "Morning Dew" which shows the danish frigate "Aurora" sailing out of the dew while the sun breaks through the clouds around the tops.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Mbo
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:33 PM

Hey, leave Kenny G alone. I like him.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:50 PM

I use my computer at work. Awhile back there was a thread called Help: Work Policies, about using one's computer a work for Internet browsing, and I posted some info there. Look there, if you're interested.

My office is fairly typical. Here's what I've done to personalize it:

I have 4 posters on my wall (1) a reproduction of an old picture of the Harvey & Son brewery in Lewes, England - a souvenir of a trip. (2) a reproduction of an old advertising poster for the Southern Railway (of England) showing the promenade at Brighton - a souvenir of another trip. (3) a poster advertising an exhibit of paintings by Maynard Dixon (no relation). (4) a false-color satellite photo of the Twin Cities (that's where I am).

Then there are my plants: a jade plant, an aloe, a mother-in-law tongue (pardon the non-PC name; Sansevieria, if you prefer), and an amaryllis. (My wife plays in a band called Amaryllis.)

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:52 PM

Sorry Mbo - I like you but I hate Kenny G. I try not to run down other peoples musical tastes but this time it just can't be helped. No insult intended.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:53 PM

I'm in the family room which runs all the way across the back of the house,on the east. It's paneled in dark walnut, so we call it the cave. Tv is here, couch and a recliner for Himself. Computer (custom built Compudyne) is in the corner under Fred, a mounted Mule Deer who sheds. Usually at least 1 Corgi under my feet, and a cat or two whining around. Puter desk is new for Mother's Day, a corner type fake oak laminate.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Alice
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:53 PM

When you walk into my house, you enter a large room that spreads out into spaces of living room, dining room, kitchen, and on the west end, studio/office, containing computers, desks, drafting table, piano.... It was too dark to get a good digital photo from inside, so here is where my computer is located - the other side of this large window by my deck
I can look out and see my back yard, birds at the feeders, and in the evening, the sunset. Alice

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 05:57 PM

Sorry, cookie re set. That is me, just before Alice.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Llanfair
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 06:15 PM

I'm finding the similarities positively spooky!!!
My house is on the High street of a tiny town completely surrounded by green hills dotted with sheep. Radio and TVreception is awful because of this. The river Banwy runs through the town. The front room downstairs has Jim's computer, synthesizer, and recording stuff, tastefully contained in a harmonium frame.
Upstairs in the front bedroom are overflowing bookcases, CD'S, craft and sewing stuff, cats, dogs, two futons for visitors, and, in the corner, on an old desk, my qubie486, which has been updated to within an inch of it's life!!
Outside, the backyard has stone walls, and steep steps lead to my unruly garden, sloping up to the veg patch, polytunnel and greenhouse. My hens provide eggs and fertilise the garden, the geese, comic relief, and I picked the first strawberries yesterday. From the top of the garden, you can see the whole town.
Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: bbelle
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 08:02 PM

On my lap.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: bigchuck
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 08:18 PM

Right here in my dining room. New Compaq, new computer station. Surrounded by my current mess in progress, which doesn't fit in the living room cause the living rooms full of instruments in various stages of being repaired (I hope to be finished by 2002).

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: JenEllen
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 08:38 PM

Okay Spaw, here goes..

My house is a long low ranch deal built in the 40's. The living room, dining room, and kitchen are one in a sort of "L" shape. My big bay window has sweet peas growing around it so that I can smell them throughout the house when I have the window open. It has a plaque with a woodcarving of a cat on it that a friend made for me. It's the old hobo sign that a "kind womon lives here". I transformed the attached garage into an infirmary, and that's where all the critters stay when they come to visit. It's got it's own sink and washer/dryer and pantry. Works really well.

I have an open door policy for humans as well as tail-waggers, so I try to keep things comfortable. The living room is full of cozy furniture (none really matches, and lots of it is covered in dog hair). No one complains much. My Nana made a cross-stitch picture that reads "So this isn't Home Sweet Home...Adjust", and most folks do. (The picture she made for the kitchen says "You won't catch any diseases, but Martha doesn't live here". True as well.) Overall, it's surrounded with piles of books and overflowing shelves, plants, and music. Something good is usually cooking, and the kettle is always on.

My 'space' is one of the bedrooms. The stereo in there is piled with whatever music I'm listening to at the moment (today I got Guy's cd's!), and NO 'work' is allowed in there. It's got my favorite cushy chair, a small armoir full of books and sheet music, a tall reading lamp, and the computer on a rickety wooden desk. There's a cork-board on the wall stuck full of pins holding all the things I need to get to when I have time to play, websites, e-mails to return, etc. There's an old Ball State University sweatshirt in a pile on the desk, so Sully can sleep when he's not chasing the cursor, and a big dog pillow on the floor for the mutt. The natural light in here is great, especially with summer on, so I only need to use the lamp for burning midnight oil. The tall shelves in here hold the stereo, with enough headphone cord I can reach anywhere in the room, more books and sheet music. The higher shelves hold all the noisemakers, from the fiddle I got in the 4th grade down to the Andean pipes I got at a festival last weekend.

My office space at work is on the old sun-porch, so I have lots of windows again, and lots of plants and books. The general feeling is the same. About the only differences from home are that the desk is sturdier, and there is considerably more hair to contend with.

~Elle

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 09:22 PM

My laptop is on my dining room table.
Behind me I have a veranda where I feed the birds. Once in a while I turn my head when I hear an interesting bird call.
Near by on the couch is my banjo. So when I am not on the computer I can easily pick it up and play a few tunes.
I tend to not take my computer along with me when I travel. I figure I am on it enough when I am at home and the break away makes me appreciate it more when I return.

Bonnie

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: rangeroger
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 09:27 PM

I "Mudcat" in my living room. My house was buit in 1939 and is only 535 sq.feet. ( the garage is 795).The living room is 13' by 13'.
I don't have a computer, instead I use a web TV terminal.My tv is a 27" stereo model that I only use for the internet. I cancelled my cable the first of the year when they doubled my rate for less services.I have a remote keyboard so I sit on the couch and read the TV screen.
The tv sets in the middle of an 8'x8'x2' wooden entertainment center I built a couple of years ago.It also holds my printer,my stereo system, about 500 lps, and about 250 cds.
In the corners of the room are 2 KLH speaker towers with Sonic studio monitor speakers on top.On the walls hang 4 guitars,a mandolin,dulcimer and banjo. The fiddles arein their cases on top of the guitar cases.
Shredder the cat is at this moment basking in the afternoon sun on the window sill.
rr

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Mooh
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 09:49 PM

My computer's in the corner of my bedroom, which my kids don't like, but it's very handy for me and the good woman. Three guitars hang within reach, old pictures and posters from my bands, a small TV, music cd's, tapes and sheet music, books, magazines, dictionaries, the dog, and if a lean back I can see out a window to my yard. I can pet the dog with my feet, play guitar and type with my hands, watch TV and the computer with my eyes, listen to tunes with my ears and, well, there's usually room for a beer on the table and in my gut. Not a bad place, but I'd usually feel better sitting in the woods by the river with a fishing rod in my hands.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 09:58 PM

Oh Kat, I forgot to mention, yes I find it best to have low lighting. Just enough so I can still look words up in my dictionary.

Bonnie

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Callie
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 09:59 PM

I cat at work and at home. My desk at work faces a wall dominated by the Magritte painting "The Great Family" of a huge bright bird rising out of a dark sea. This building used to be horse stables in the 1940s, thus the cobbled courtyard. There are tunnels underneath the building which lead to other ex-army locations and which were used during the war to transport soldiers in large numbers through Sydney without alarming the public.

At home, my computer is in my bedroom/office/rehearsal room. It is by the window, which looks out across a valley of suburban rooves and then out to a vast sea. Some mornings, the sea and sky fuse so I have my own Turner painting outside my window! Unfortunately, I usually cat at night, or early in the morning post-rehearsing with Chicky and the Critter, so the view outside my window is just black. The only thing I see then are the lights from the Red Cross home next door.

Mbo: I normally trust and respect your musical opinions. HOWEVER, I draw the line at Kenny G. As a saxophone player and lover of jazz I feel that he's about as musical as a McDonalds burger is a wholesome meal. Whenever I'm out eating or drinking with my partner and we hear Kenny G, he asks the management to change the music - coz he knows how it makes my skin crawl.

Callie

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 10:38 PM

Hey, is it MANDANTORY for 'Catters to have cats? Is there anyone here who doesn't?? *BG*

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Mbo
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 10:56 PM

My cat Boo is fascinated with the printer!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 11:46 PM

Sorcha, I don't have a cat but that is mostly down to where I live. I'm not sure what my landlors attitude is towards pets but I would not like to keep a cat or a dog in my flat as I wouldn't be giving them the life I think they deserve.

I have always been uneasy about cats in the middle of town but I suppose a dog would be OK but I would feel obliged to take it out for more walks than I would be prepared to and I'd rather do without the joys that pets can bring than giving an animal a poor life.

Jon

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 11:47 PM

I don't have a cat- or a dog. The current management doesn't want animals here. I'm the caretaker and tourguide at a house museum. (Large house/small museum)

I have my computer- a Packard Bell I'll replace one of these days- on the middle floor of a 3-story or 'storey' house. All around me I have bookshelves overflowing with books, a fax, diskettes, two phones. A large table with stuff. A cabinet with a cd/tape player with hundreds of tapes and about 20 cds. My best guitar. A mandolin left me by my brother who died recently. File cabinets stuffed with papers needing sorting and recataloging. Two foot tall Joe and Josephine Juneau nylon stocking dolls given me by a friend. Joe is a trapper complete with bushy beard and snowshoes and Josephine is wearing- barely- richly maroon saloon trappings. Her face is not pretty.

Two windows, the one on the right offering a view of a mountain rearing into the sky and out the other window is a lawn lined by cottonwood trees that serve as a gathering place, morning (try 3:30 AM!) and evening, for about 40 crows as they discuss what they plan to do that day or crow about what they did do all day. Beyond is the Pacific ocean, with an island about 1/2 mile away connected to the mainland by a bridge.

Hey! It works for me...Ebbie

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: IceWolf
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:01 AM

Hi folkses,

I have a tiny one BR apartment (am I the only Mudcatter who doesn't own a house?), and my computer, printer, scanner, wife's computer, wife's printer, and assorted other peripherals have more or less taken over the living "area".

The rest of the place is occupied by my harp, three guitars, a dobro, and two cats - which, as most of you know, take up much more space than they should according to the laws of physics, particularly with regards to bed space. Not to mention the bookshelves on every wall, most doublestacked.

In November, though, I will be moving into a HOUSE. Any Tampa-based Mudcats are welcome to help out! *grin*

IceWolf

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:05 AM

No IceWolf, I rent a single bedroom flat.

Jon

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Mbo
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:05 AM

Well, I'm in apartment, but my cat is actually at my folks house 85 miles away, and it's the printer there that she's obsessed with!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:09 AM

Makes for a helluva long walk to the litter box doesn't it?

Spaw

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:17 AM

renting here, too

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Alice
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:22 AM

No cat. I have what Bill Sables calls a "polar bear dog".

Leo, the Samoyed couch king
Ryan playing the mandolin for Leo

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:26 AM

Well, yes, Jon, but you sound as if you wish you had a critter or 2.......tell you what. I'll give you one of mine, and board it until you come get it, OK? Or is JenEllen already doing that? Cats just seem to come here; there must be a sign on the gate that says--All Cats Stop Here, Lady is a Real Sucker.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:32 AM

OH I forgot that I won Angus the Destroyer in a game of Cribbage against JenEllen... not really - just what I said the bet was after I won, having been told before the game that I was in for a pasting - that is why I ask Elle how my dog is - he looks a lovely animal too (and I'm sure he is far happier with Elle than he would be with me).

Jon

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:34 AM

DOES ANGUS KNOW THIS?? After all, his mum set a kestrel on fire once............

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:39 AM

I'm not sure, the only one I told Angus about was elle's intamacy with a certain eagle ;-)

Jon

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: JenEllen
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:52 AM

HEY NOW!!! Leave my poor scarred butt out of this! The eagle definately got the better end of the deal (MY end)!!

Angus is quite fond of Jon actually...they've sent each other voice mails and get along famously. I think Jon would make a great doggie-daddy, just needs to find the right pup. Until then he can surrogate Misty and bunny...and Angus and Sully too! There's always a warm dog-covered spot on the couch for ya luv.

~Elle

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 02:15 AM

I am seated in an Monet yellow, "L" or "boot" shaped room with white trim and charcoal doors, which once, prior to renovation and addition, was my youngest daughter's bedroom. The walls are decorated with posters, such as one for Scott Towels, which asks the question "Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?" and another that admonishes "Fake Furs Not Orgasms", as well as a mixture of other equally odd prints and family paintings.

The foot of the boot is comprised of a small sitting room area, along the "sole" of which, is my eldest daughter's entertainment centre cabinet, constructed by her and her grandfather and flanked by two 1950's loudspeakers, seated upon her vinyl record collection housed in coloured plastic milk crates.

Tucked into the toe of the boot, under a low sloping sky lighted ceiling and between two small multi-paned windows is a large homemade cushioned chair, a plant and a bizarre lamp, which consists of three pink plastic shades, that look like lily blossoms, on brass-like stems. At the back heel of the boot, is a narrow pair of French doors that exit onto a small deck. The "foot" is divided from the rest of the room by a small futon, which faces the entertainment centre.

Along the shin of the boot is another door and my Mudcat Link and Company office, which consists of a makeshift desk, constructed of a door, painted white, spanning two flanking black filing cabinets,. To the left of the centered monitor is the printer and modem and to the right my Fax/Answering machine.

Somewhere on the desktop, in the debris of mounds of paper, unpaid bills, invoices, floppy disks and zip disks, tapes, bent paper clips, pens, a single green foam earplug? is an often buried mouse and a keyboard, awkwardly slanted and partially hanging over the edge of the "desk", because the monitor is too large for the depth of the "desktop door". At my feet, tucked under the desk, seated on a kitchen cabinet door sits, the Company leased, Mac G3. I "man" this station perched on a large pillow (I am the short person in the family) on an old chrome-set chair.

Above the desk are two long white shelves stacked with office supplies, phone books, a box labeled Band Equipment, various computer manuals, a row of books and a collection of CD's, tapes and vinyl folk music.

Behind me is the long wall of this room, with a door to the Living Room at one end and the French doors at the other. Between the doors is a 50's chrome set table, piled with more office papers and company-related material and another file cabinet. Bursting out from beneath the table is a small beer fridge, out of someone's old RV, various boxes of 78 RPM records, a large blue plastic bin of company records and more boxes of band equipment.

Propped also against the wall, displaced by the computer shelves and awaiting mounting above the table and file cabinet, is the guitar hanger, for my husband's and daughters' musical instruments. The instruments are currently lying on the floor or tucked in various corners around this room and other areas of the house.

I won't even begin to describe the dog hair and other debris that is occasionally imbedded in this carpet.

Welcome to my world.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 02:25 AM

In the sliding glass door which faces Gun Lake, across the unfinished room to the circular stairs taken out of a factory, up to the second floor sitting room. One of the doors off this room leads to a 6'x 10' windowless room. The 'puter sits opposite the door on a short wall. On the walls are all kinds of things Irish, labor, political, and so on. On one wall is the bookcase which calls me 47 kinds of mf's every time I walk past due to the overload I put on it. I have an old door made into a long worktable which sits at right angles to my computer desk, such as it is. It is cluttered, but it works for me.

Big Mick

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 03:20 AM

Mick, are you building a house too? We started this one over twenty-five years ago, it's really small and we still haven't finished it.

We used a lot of salvaged material and your factory stairs put me in mind of our bath tub and some of our doors. They came out of an old Convent, in fact the standard joke here, when we first moved in, was that it was probably the first time that Mother Superior's tub didn't have a virgin in it.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 03:38 AM

I love that. Yes, Metchosin, we are. It was a 24' square cabin in an old resort. We added 12' to the main floor, jacked the roof (it was a flat, slanted tar roof)up level, added a second floor and a gable roof. We put two bedrooms, my office such as it is, a bathroom, and a living room on the second floor. It is lofted to the main floor. We started this several years ago. If I ever talk about doing something like this again, I hereby authorize any Mudcatter of at least 6 months seniority to stab me in the eye with an icepick..................LOL.

Big Mick

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 03:51 AM

My husband once posted a sign on ours "This is the house that Jim hates" one day when he was feeling particularly frustrated.

Subject: RE: So Where IS Your Computer???
From: roopoo
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 05:01 AM

A 10 foot by 12 foot room, "the study", in my approx 110 year old red brick house in a Yorkshire village, and overlooking the main road through the village...and one of the pubs. The computer shares the room with ceiling to floor bookshelves, the central heating boiler, dartboard which is now used as a pin-board, an L-shaped desk (with computer on one bit and partly crammed with my craft work storage boxes on the other - I wish it was L-space too!), and my doughcrafting paraphernalia and worktable. Quite often there is a shaggy black and white sheepdog type sprawled in the doorway, if I'm "doughing", or trying to get round my feet at the desk.

We don't just get dust in our computer - it's dog hair and flour too!

mouldy