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26 May 07 - 11:08 PM (#2061626) Subject: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg When you're Mudcatting, what's surrounding you? What's your workstation littered with, and/or is it organized? Mine-- a corner of the living room at one end, with a corner-shaped desk, part of which Hardi made me from ash and poplar. Most important paperwork between keyboard and monitor; keys, MP3 player just charged, usually spare specs to put on over regular specs to see the monitor more clearly. 18" monitor. Next-most-urgent- awaiting-action items on either side of the monitor. Usually a medium sized file rack to the right, but now there's a very tall fluorescent, full-spectrum light I haven't put away for the summer yet. To either side of the desk chair, like wings off the main desktop, two low sets of cubbies (one on each side) that sit under tall, narrow Victorian windows. Each cubby has three sections where projects and/or fresh printer paper pile up. A printer sits on top of each-- one for regular B/W printing on regular-weight paper, the other has color and can take thicker photo paper. Behind me, facing the living room and anyone present to jam, autoharp-playing table with room to write chord progressions for new material, with work in progress. No 'harp there for now because Hardi has it upstairs refelting it, but its space is taken up by a scanner not in use. Also nearby is a very large wicker basket that used to be a plant-holder for a medium tree, bought at a yard sale to use as a wastebasket. The bottom was almost rotted out when I bought it, so its lined with a plastic bag that never leaves it when I empty it. It's BIG, makes a havy load of paper when I empty it, and what fills it is all the paper I waste when I'm printing stuff to proof for our soungbooks. And slips of paper I collect around parish events-- contact info for instance-- once whatever was on them has been handled. In the windows, various gifts and cards, including woodworking lovelies from Hardi and Dharmabum. Outside, scenery: to the left, the shady front porch, evergreens, sometimes hummingbirds, traffic, larger birds, bats at night, and often storms arriving and blowing by. To the right, whippy overgrown evergreen with birds' nests, sometimes hummingbirds, small side yard, creek that had a cow jump out of it one day, wild rabbits, dsometimes a cow in the driveway, utility trucks, Hardi coming home, and the neighbor's yard that usually contains Faulkner's beagle. Often a cat on my feet. Above the monitor, bird wallpaper. ~Susan |
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26 May 07 - 11:22 PM (#2061632) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Joe Offer Mine is a disgusting mess, and I don't want to talk about it. -Joe Offer, wallowing in paperwork- |
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27 May 07 - 12:23 AM (#2061656) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Janie Computer is right by the living room window, where I can look out at the garden. There are always a few cd's dvd's and some of my son's games piked around, but since it is in the living room, I don't let stuff get too out of hand right around the work station. Janie |
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27 May 07 - 04:48 AM (#2061724) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Sandra in Sydney My back is to my window! But said window is filled with lots of greenery, & is lovely to look at in the day & is covered by a curtain printedd with more greenery at night. When I'm Mudcatting I face lots of lovely postcards & photos - Mary in Kentucky sent me cards showing a local waterfall & lake, Naemanson sent me a pic of the boat he helped build, Linda Goodman sent me cards from Washington, Suffet sent me a card of the Brooklyn Bridge, a vciew of Norfolk Island ge=iven to me by a colleague & a wonderful pic of a polar bear & babies taken bya friend in Churchill, Baffin Bay, Canada. I also look at pics clipped out of magazines showing gardens & trees, snow, & sunsets, and a great pic of Pete Seeger taken from a CD box. My table was built by Mudcatter Jack Halyard to fit into a small space, & includes a special support for my left arm as it aches if not supported. The desk also includes supports for the 5 proper CD shelves above, & I somehow balanced 3 smaller shelves in the space beside my screen (17" iMac) for my Mudcatter collection. Beside me on my left I have my scanner/printer sitting on a white unit that probably originally held something in someone's kitchen. I keep a plastic In-Tray on top of the scanner & a few toys in front - all need moving when I use the scanner. I keep paper in a wire basket below the scanner. On my desk I have a Japanese paper & cardboard desk caddy & a Japanese paper doll, both made by me,a few more toys, & decorative stuff hanging off shelf ends & my light! To the right of my desk are tall display shelves containing teddy bears & other interesting stuff, like dolls, Japanese ornaments, more CDs & my CD player. Notes & notepaper & pads of sticky paper abound, & I can't forget the little yeloe sticky-paper notes around my screen! Finally I sit on a very comfortable ergonomic chair, & from it I survey the chaos of library books & other stuff on my floor - must clear a track thru it sometime tonight. Maybe. sandra |
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27 May 07 - 06:58 AM (#2061754) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Liz the Squeak Corner table with a set of shelves on it, shelves contain the printer/scanner, boxes of old disks, magazine boxes full of useful crap, lined and plain papers, family history researches and personal banking/bills. There are several dragons loitering, a calendar with cats on and above all, a former firescreen turned picture which was embroidered by my grandmother in the last years of her life before blindness and breast cancer got her. It's a traditional embroidery of her favourite Jacobean 'Tree of Life' design, worked in blues, earthy browns, soft greens and creams. There are mistakes, the colours don't always blend like her earlier works, the transfer lines show through in places - but it is still crisp, neat and finely wrought... Next to me on the right, under the window is my sewing table, slide out padded bit for ironing, sewing machine and equipment in the drawers. To the left, more huge shelves which carry the computer, CDroms, turntable for putting Vinyl onto CD, boxes of paper, tray of envelopes and special papers, drawers for sewing stuff, boxes of threads, including the remnants of my grandmothers sewing box, colours used in the embroidery above... boxes of fabric, box files of sewing magazines and a collection of mugs with dragons on them. On the shelf uprights, a small selection of straw hat, panama hats and a hard hat. The rest of the room would just take up too much space here, but most of it is books and dragons... LTS |
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27 May 07 - 07:27 AM (#2061762) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg Sandra, little yeloe sticky-paper notes around my screen How could I have forgotten to include those in my description?!?!?!? Yes, I have given up the appointment book, and all my promises are on the tiniest yellow stickies available. Thanks for the long description-- I can actually SEE it in my mind! To the left of the leftside cubbies is a tall storage section, which is two more of those three-hole cubbies (stacked) with a shelf stacked on top of those. Lower cubbies hold office supplies and some hibernating projects (standing up in cardboard office-supply file-holders). Shelves, music binders in current work/use on lower shelf, and mementoes on the upper shelves. This puts the binders in easy reach of the autoharp/arranging table, because it's perpendicular to that making an L-shape. The CPU sits between that cubby/shelf system on a base Hardi made me with pretty, cabriolesque legs. He made bases with the same legs for the wing-cubbies as well, because the heat runs along the baseboard, below. These clever bases let the heat out, as well as putting the cubbies at the right height to reach from the desk chair. They fit neatly under the windows. And because they are on top of the protruding baseboard heat, they only stick out about 12" from the walls. The desk itself is quite strange-- two entirely separate pieces. The rear piece is the ash/poplar corner item Hardi made to requested dimensions, and holds the monitor and lamps. The keyboard is on top of an old top-opening desk we picked up at a second-hand store, and it used to be my autoharp table. It has storage below the lift-top and a second storage space under the rear non-lifting panel. This whole keyboard-carrying unit slides forward or backwards under the front of the rear item, so that monitor distance is easily managed for visitors and my changing eyeballs. It also determines the color scheme, being wood in some parts and white laminate in others. All the cubbies are white laminate. Now the cubbies themselves are wonderful. Any home-improvement or K-Mart has them (closet organizers), and we modified them. I started using them vertically in my Red Cross office to hold materials pertinent to the five distinct lines of service Red Cross involves. Then they became committee cubbies for the leadership we were developing-- like a mail center where I could direct mail and files to the various groups coming into viability. I'd bought 'em myself, so when I left, I took them! They needed an end boxed in, and backs, to be structurally workable on their sides. Hardi cut those to my measurements; we assembled them and I painted them matching, glossy white. In another application they could be small, low windowseat benches. The ones under the shelf unit are holding several hundred pounds, I imagine-- very sturdy and stable. And I have several other pieces in matching laminate that can all be brought together for our next office, if and when we move. The bases are not attached, and move easily. Even with all the cubbies, and frequent policing, it's still perpetually messy. I can find things, and it's part of the minmalistic organizing plan I've described elsewhere. If any of the paper is worth keeping, it will make it into the year-end file box sent to archives out back. ~Susan |
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27 May 07 - 07:44 AM (#2061768) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg LtS, Missed your post while composing mine. Lovely-- especially the way you included your grandmother not only in your workspace, but here among us as well. ~Susan |
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27 May 07 - 08:45 AM (#2061789) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Sandra in Sydney yeloe? maybe I could learn to preview? sandra |
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27 May 07 - 09:14 AM (#2061795) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg I like it, and I'm adding it to the family lexicon. ~S~ |
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27 May 07 - 10:05 AM (#2061810) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Alice Big picture window looking out to the backyard and deck, large potted plant on corner of desk, digital pad and pen with cordless mouse for the computer, some paperwork for the job, paperback dictionary and thesaurus and hardbound dictionary and thesaurus. The radio is nearby always tuned to NPR. |
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27 May 07 - 12:15 PM (#2061856) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Bee Windows on left looking at lake, nice bright southeast facing room; little cheap wood computer desk, ten year old computer, scanner; small cupboard for papers, envelopes, and whatnots. Rest of room is sort of guestroom, except for my new digital camera and standalone printer (not compatible with antique computer, of course - nothing is) and gear, and my guitar lives in here as well. A bit messy, but not frightening - I could spruce it up for a guest in about an hour. |
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27 May 07 - 01:11 PM (#2061881) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Bill D oh, you don't want to know in the week BEFORE our festival & craft show next weekend. Newspapers obscure many surfaces. Suffice it to say, every inch of space has something assigned to live there, with CDs and printers and radio and various gadgets abounding...(I am GOOD at finding exotic ways to get more & more into available space...and I even clean & straighten it periodically.) I'll post pictures AFTER the festival |
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27 May 07 - 01:44 PM (#2061894) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: JennyO When I am Mudcatting, I am surrounded by a very fully furnished (you might even call it cluttered) living room. My workstation is a desk with a hutch. The design really suits me, as it has a shelf down low about 6 inches off the ground, where I can put my feet on a cushion, instead of having them dangling down. This puts my legs at a very comfortable angle to the rest of my body when I am sitting. I found my chair in a council cleanup - probably thrown out because the height adjustment is no longer working, but it happens to be just the right height for me. It has arms, and is the most comfortable chair in the house. I can sit in it for hours without any back strain - a real bonus because my back is not easy to please! Right next to me at the moment also is a fan heater - turned on. We are finally starting to get some very chilly winter nights. On my desk in front of me there is my monitor with an assortment of odd objects on it - my fluffy toy Y2K bug, a little viking figure that I got in Sweden, a lump of rose quartz, a little felt cat from Sandra in Sydney, and a calendar. Tucked in under the desktop, just above the keyboard shelf, is a little tray that swings out, where I keep pens and a few other odd little things. On the shelf underneath, next to where I put my feet, are two stacked trays where I keep important papers that I need to deal with. Above the monitor is a rack with CD ROMs etc. On a low shelf to the right sit the router and computer, with one of those USB hubs that Susan needs, so I don't have to scrabble behind the computer too often, above that a sliding shelf stocked with a lot of recycled paper for scribbling on, and above that my multifunction printer which is a bit of a monster. There are a few pages of Morris tune music on top of it at the moment. Also tucked in between the monitor and printer is the speaker for my skype connection which really needs a longer cord - it only just reaches the desktop, a box of tissues, a cordless phone in its base, and a small air ionizer. On a shelf above the printer is a lamp, a small clock, a figure of a witch holding a crystal ball, and a lovely framed artwork of a Celtic knot that CatsPHiddle sent me. Right on top are some of my favourite and most used books and a few other little "toys". There's a model of a Morris dancer that John made, up there too. Yes, sounds pretty cluttered, but it's my little corner and I like it. I'm situated near the corner of the living room, with a large window round the corner to the right. When the blind is pulled up, I can see some bits of my garden along the fence - sometimes tomatoes and a passionfruit vine in summer, and a large straggly rose bush over to the left. The road is just the other side of the fence, so I tend to keep the blind down for privacy - particularly at night. Under the window is a sofa bed which is not often used as a bed. At the moment it has a pile of catalogues, a couple of bills, a violin in an open case and a bunch of cushions on it. Next to the sofa bed in the corner behind me is a set of drawers where I keep most of my stationary. On top of it is a lamp, a sculpture of two dolphins that my son gave me, a vase with some wattle in it, and the St Albans Folk Festival Chorus Cup - a huge mulga wood monstrosity that I have to house till next year's festival. On my left is my TV, stereo, DVD player etc - the sound from my computer comes from the stereo speakers, so they all have to be together. I don't mind having the TV close because I can sort of watch it out of the corner of my eye while I am on the computer. Further over to the left, round the other corner are racks of CDs, a piano with family photos and candles on it, a darabukka next to the piano stool, and another corner full of instruments in cases - guitars, a mandolin, a bouzouki, a banjo, a couple of bodhrans, and numerous whistles and percussion of every kind. On the wall behind me are two lounge chairs facing the TV, with a half-finished fireplace between them. It will never be a real one, as the chimney has been bricked in, but I'm hoping there will soon be a heater in there that looks like glowing logs. A lovely old fashioned fireplace surround, which we bought second hand ages ago, is leaning against the wall, waiting to be attached to it - one of many unfinished projects around here :-( In spite of that, I'm really fond of this space. It's cosy! |
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27 May 07 - 01:51 PM (#2061899) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg It's so nice to be able to "see" you! ~Susan |
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27 May 07 - 02:39 PM (#2061925) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Ebbie My work station is a long, curved table built to fit the space around the corner of two walls. There are double windows to the right and the left of me. To my left (I am in a basement apartment) I see into the space underneath the neighbor's deck. It is used for storage and has a blue tarp flapping in the breeze. To my right I look down the grassy slope past spruce and mountain ash trees to the oldest Russian Orthodox church (1894) and rectory in southeast Alaska. It is painted white with blue trim and has a gilt-covered dome above. It is a working church so the frequent sound of its bell penetrates my walls. Which is fine- except at Easter time when it sometimes bongs for more than 100 strokes. I don't know the significance of that. Incidentally, during a service in a Russian Orthodox church, parishioners traditionally stand for the duration, although there are several benches placed around the perimeter for those unable to stand for so long. But having the congregation stand means that the church can be - and is - much smaller than most churches. And instead of the usual rectangle of most churches, a Russian Orthodox church is round or octagonal. At my work station are strategicly placed lamps, a tall one and a short one, a turntable where I convert vinyl to CD, long, slim boxes of minidiscs, stacks of CDs that are on the way to their new owners, a stack of empty slim-line CD cases, a radio/CD player, and an assortment of CDs for my own use. Hanging above is wall-mounted CD shelving. To the left of my 17" monitor is another CD receptacle, this one a tower, a printer on a stand with its paper stored beneath and assorted facial tissues, eye glass cleaner, breath mints and stapler. At my back to the left is a table-height cabinet with supplies of all sorts. On top are the dishes archy, my coal-black cat with 14 white hairs, uses at his own discretion. He's a self-feeder which is why in the night I sometimes hear him munching away like a contented horse at its oats. At my back to the right is a standup oil-filled radiating heater for when the temperature drops. I don't have normal heating in this apartment; instead I have a total of four heaters available, which is sufficient except for when the strongest wintertime winds blow. This is an interesting exercise, Susan. |
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27 May 07 - 04:49 PM (#2061963) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: RangerSteve M;y computer is in an extension of the living room, which is almost all windows, and probably seemed like a good idea when whoever the owner was had it put in, but it lets in just a little too much sunlight. The size of the windows made vertical blinds the most practical type of shade providers, but they tend to come apart after a while, so there are a few slats missing, so there are certain times when the sun is right in my eyes and I can't use the computer. Otherwise, I have my front yard to my left, currently full of irises and columbines, in front of me is a view of a farm field, nicely plowed, to my right, a section of the yard that no one ever sees or uses, so it's in pretty bad shape. Around the computer are musical instruments, piles of CD's that I have listened to for lyrics, or plan on listening to, piles of lyrics that I've typed out and haven't put into notebooks yet, other piles of sheet music that I printed out from the Lester Levy website, piles of songbooks, and probably a lot of things that I've forgotten about that lie in the piles of the things I just mentioned. It's a mess, but it's not unsanitary. |
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27 May 07 - 08:45 PM (#2062096) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Joe_F My desk is a 3-by-6-ft desktop on two two-drawer filing cabinets. To the left is an etager with various small items, references, and cans of tea & coffee. At the back of the desk is a block&board bookcase, the lower two levels consisting of racks for paper, MSs, and miscellaneous equipment, with a cave hollowed out for the monitor, and, on the right, shelves for backup & software disks. There are two shelves of reference books and, up next to the ceiling, loudspeakers & diplomas. The monitor is presided over by a picture of Max Vasilatos. On the desk, from left to right, a coffeemaker, qwerty telephone & caller ID, old coffee can full of tall thin objects, Harvard Magazine mug full of short thin objects, Kinesis keyboard, rack of rubber stamps, trackball, and hp all-in-one presided over by a picture of my good buddy & computer guru Jim, Knower of Things. Underneath the desk, the CPU & disk drives, presided over by a picture of Richard Stallman, and two wastebaskets. To the right, a New Yorker poster given me by Jim. I have to swivel to look out the window. |
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27 May 07 - 08:59 PM (#2062107) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Liz the Squeak I forgot to mention, out of the window is a view of part of my garden and part of next doors' garden. I can see the buddliea (butterfly bush), four types of ivy and the white Iceberg rose, along with next door's privet bush. From here, I can also get an excellent view of my tits as they swing on the feeder. LTS |
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27 May 07 - 09:22 PM (#2062125) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Ebbie Oh, I forgot to mention that behind the monitor up above are two corner shelves filled to overflowing with books and a large white vase filled with large red and white artificial roses. I don't usually go for fake flowers but these were just too pretty to pass up. |
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27 May 07 - 11:11 PM (#2062169) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: JennyO Thanks, Susan - I enjoyed 'seeing' you too. I was afraid my description might be too long, but I've been enjoying yours and others with detailed descriptions. It does allow one to 'see' others' spaces. Good thread! Right now in front of me there is an empty cup and plate. I have this bad habit of eating toast, biscuits or croissants with a cup of tea right here in front of the computer. Today it was a croissant for breakfast. Trouble is, I am always having to shake the crumbs and flakes out of my keyboard. Haven't managed to tip my tea on it yet, although with some people's jokes...........:-) |
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28 May 07 - 04:47 PM (#2062593) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: bobad A picture is worth a thousand words. |
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29 May 07 - 08:35 AM (#2063053) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Uncle_DaveO Susan H., your description sounds as if you are still in your old country house. Is that right? I know I hadn't heard about your moving from there, as had been projected. Dave Oesterreich |
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29 May 07 - 09:25 AM (#2063086) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg Still crazy, after all these years. Move still ahead, but not sewed up. Sometimes it's easier to let staying drag on. After all these years of puttering, the house is almost livable! The enemy you know.... lots of other old country houses, around, but what's wrong with THEM....? ~S~ |
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29 May 07 - 09:30 AM (#2063090) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Catherine Jayne I'm sat on the sofa with my laptop on my knee. My lounge is neat and tidy. At the moment baby Harry is asleep in his rocker chair, there are many cards on the mantle piece, shelf, side board and window sill, there's a bunch of balloons which a friend sent to celebrate the birth of Harry. I've got a bunch of beautiful flowers on in a vase on the side board. Merlyn the Mogificent is sunning herself on the back of one of the chairs. Today is a good day! |
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29 May 07 - 10:48 AM (#2063137) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: JennyO Bobad, I can't get your link to work. Today, my space got even cosier! I bought a lovely heater at Target which is made to look a bit like an old fashioned fireplace and has imitation logs and flames. It fits very well into the fireplace alcove - like it was made for it. Not the same as a real fire of course, but it's the next best thing. The room is toasty warm and the glow and flickering really gives the impression of a fireplace. I love it! |
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29 May 07 - 10:53 AM (#2063140) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: bobad "Bobad, I can't get your link to work." Do you get anything when you click on it? I'd like to know if it doesn't work for others because it is an image hosting site I use. It does work for me when I click on it. |
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29 May 07 - 11:12 AM (#2063151) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg Aw, CRAP! I gotta clean it all up-- the monitor table? My sister just sent me a NINETEEN INCH..... FLATSCREEN MONITOR (What was she thinking????) and Mr. UPS Man just gave me a heart attack arriving with it! That sis is one tricky b*tch. Email: "I got this cool new thing on sale, what do YOU have?" I told her I have an old but great 18-incher, and just was happy for her. Never suspected she was up to this! Geeze, Louise-- another inch! It better have room for my row of post-it's, though, I only just got that old remembering-appointmnets thing working for me! Hardi will get the old perfecly fine 18-er for his office. He and the parish secretary can fight over it. You have to understand, I only have the 18-er because most of our house fire insurance (Dec., 2000) went into a then-excellent new computer. I would never have dreamed I could upgrade the monitor. I was just grateful to have the 18-er, which is pretty f**king big. Sh*t! (I really like the carry-handle box it came in.) ~Susan |
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29 May 07 - 11:40 AM (#2063178) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: JennyO Basically, bobad, it tried to load for ages but wouldn't, and eventually I got this message: Gateway Timeout The following error occurred: [code=GATEWAY_TIMEOUT] A gateway timeout occurred. The server is unreachable. Retry the request. Please contact the administrator. Dunno if anyone else is having more success than me. |
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29 May 07 - 12:57 PM (#2063239) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Rapparee 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. Satisfied? |
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29 May 07 - 02:16 PM (#2063317) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Ebbie Bobad, your link works perfectly for me. |
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29 May 07 - 02:21 PM (#2063323) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: bobad Thanks Ebbie. |
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29 May 07 - 06:36 PM (#2063551) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg I have to decide what to do with the OLD big-ass monitor. It would help if I knew if one CPU can run two monitors, because there are some things streamed online that would be nice to see on the old monitor, which I could wheel into position when we care to use it like that. No one in their right mind can turn down a 19-er, but then no one in their right mind would get rid of an 18-er, either. If I decide who I like that much, and it leaves the house, I KNOW that's when I will figure out how I could have used it myself. Right now the flat-panel is sitting on the DR table, leering at me. "Unwrap me, install me." (Out of the box, which I will be using immediately!) Of course I LIKE it, but I still haven't quite mustered up the will to deal with the OLD one which is, unfortunately, quite in the way and quite ungainly and heavy. (Ever lift an 18? I have, when I was young and foolish. Never again). And too tall to set a flat-panel on top. Maybe I can push it back far enough to set the new one down in front of it...... [she reaches and gives a push]..... Holy cow, there IS room, now. :~) Hm, maybe I can winkle in the new one around the paper piles-- since the monitor table is where all the really important stuff sits till I deal with it. I'm afraid to disturb it-- my new driver's license is in there! ~Susan |
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29 May 07 - 08:09 PM (#2063612) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Mickey191 Bobad-I've web tv & usually can't get pix-but yours is fine. Matter of fact, my set-up is similar to yours-three floor to ceiling bookcases. Two windows on the left which allow a good view of the street & my neighbor's house. Their little boy is 2 yrs. & a few months-his first time running around-He's a joy to watch as the little girl from up the street comes down & they romp in a kiddie pool. Love their laughter! My screen is a 25 inch JVC tv & the rest of the room has oil & water colors of nautical scenes. I paneled the room myself in a light color. The rug is a rasberry & beige pattern. A recently decorated wooden trunk has 7 pictures - one is my wedding pix, the rest are family members- most of whom have passed. A small printer & two easy chairs & a couch. The couch has a hideous flowered cover which shall be incinerated shortly. Two floor lamps, one works, one doesn't. The working one cost $2.00 at a yard sale-I love it-one of those almost to the ceiling fire hazards which lights up the whole room. A roll-top desk takes up one wall & over that is a lovely window overlooking my bird feeders & peony buds ready to open in a few days. Its a comfortable room & it holds alot of great memories of bygone days. |
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30 May 07 - 05:39 AM (#2063862) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Sandra in Sydney this is one of the best (BS) threads ever! looks like we are all alike - cluttery folks, rather than excessively tidy folks. My best friend/colleague had a desk that always shocked me. Nuffin' on it, except his keyboard & phone & a pic of himself & his partner. He works in our Information Section, a small call centre in a Govt agency, & when he started a shift he would open his desk hutch so he could access his core set of publications, pull out a pen & scratch pad, and log on to the agency's website. And his home computer is on a similarly sparse desk!! sandra |
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30 May 07 - 06:30 AM (#2063881) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: GUEST,Diva on the mac well at home its in the hall with a shelf above for books and cds, shelf below for paper for the printer which is now filled with books cds and empty coffee cups, easy access to kitchen for the coffee, I keep trying to tidy it up but.......... |
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30 May 07 - 08:09 AM (#2063933) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: skipy It would take days to list! Skipy |
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30 May 07 - 08:57 AM (#2063960) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: Rapparee Susan, you CAN run multiple monitors. Check here, for example. |
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30 May 07 - 02:39 PM (#2064253) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: PoppaGator The one at work or the one at home? When I get home, I'll have the time to answer more completely. Of course, when I get home, I often have no desire to spend any more time in front of a computer monitor after being chained to the desk at work all day... |
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30 May 07 - 08:16 PM (#2064498) Subject: RE: BS: Your Mudcat Station (AKA workstation) From: wysiwyg Poppa-- the one from which you usually Mudcat. Rap-- THANK YOU for finding that! ~Susan |
