Quarantine-Blogging: New Desk, Who Dis?
Mar. 23rd, 2020 11:28 pmMy main computermachine has been down since, um, January. ( Things happened. )
As I started recovering energy from the cold and the jury duty, I started thinking about getting organized. I re-filed my papers and started clearing off my desk.
Belovedest ordered some RAM, and then I didn't want to set up the machine again if I just had to unplug it and take it apart, so I waited and tried to clear the desk some more. (It's amazing how, in an ADHD household, flat surfaces collect Stuff.)
It arrived on ... Thursday? ... and Belovedest popped it in. Success! They tried plugging it in, and it POSTed fine.
It took me two additional days to get the desk sorted and such. Complicating this is that my desk is a small, wobbly IKEA table. There's very little place to put all the things one needs to hand when one's living at one's desk.
But finally, today, I snagged one of the TV trays and stacked the things that should probably go there (for now) on it, and swapped out my keyboard for the better keyboard that I inherited (look, when your boss tells you that the fancy keyboard is going in e-waste unless it should fall off a truck between now and the inventory, you do a thing), and ... my computermachine works!
I have two monitors, more or less the same size. The current keyboard is The Dream(TM): a Kinesis Freestyle 2, with available middle-lift attachments. Due to Murderface Slinky Sausage Escape Calico Kitty being a woman who tries to get into technology, I have erected the structural barrier of a pair of little glass shelves over each half of the keyboard. This is *fantastic* because it lets me put the little charger unit and a stand for my phone and the Wacom tablet (and my dinner) literally on top of the keyboard without causing a problem. I have an uninteresting optical corded mouse to the right, on an interesting metal mousepad with two different textured sides and little rubber feet. The mouse cord is in a gumbite that hopefully keeps it from getting slammed under the speaker and shortening my available mouse reach.
I posted a picture on Twitter.
Steph did a timeline of Personal Shenanigans in context of The Epidemic, and it was enlightening. I might do similar, especially after this evening's conversation with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cleverthylacine.
Having the good keyboard means that I can chat much faster, which means I can chat with more people. So I've been catching up on some of my social life.
cleverthylacine is holed up awaiting test results in San Francisco. She's pretty sure she's got it. We compared her current symptoms and my symptoms from the dreadful cold at the end of January, and ... suffice to say that when I have a reasonable opportunity to get an antibody test done, I'd like to do that.
As I started recovering energy from the cold and the jury duty, I started thinking about getting organized. I re-filed my papers and started clearing off my desk.
Belovedest ordered some RAM, and then I didn't want to set up the machine again if I just had to unplug it and take it apart, so I waited and tried to clear the desk some more. (It's amazing how, in an ADHD household, flat surfaces collect Stuff.)
It arrived on ... Thursday? ... and Belovedest popped it in. Success! They tried plugging it in, and it POSTed fine.
It took me two additional days to get the desk sorted and such. Complicating this is that my desk is a small, wobbly IKEA table. There's very little place to put all the things one needs to hand when one's living at one's desk.
But finally, today, I snagged one of the TV trays and stacked the things that should probably go there (for now) on it, and swapped out my keyboard for the better keyboard that I inherited (look, when your boss tells you that the fancy keyboard is going in e-waste unless it should fall off a truck between now and the inventory, you do a thing), and ... my computermachine works!
I have two monitors, more or less the same size. The current keyboard is The Dream(TM): a Kinesis Freestyle 2, with available middle-lift attachments. Due to Murderface Slinky Sausage Escape Calico Kitty being a woman who tries to get into technology, I have erected the structural barrier of a pair of little glass shelves over each half of the keyboard. This is *fantastic* because it lets me put the little charger unit and a stand for my phone and the Wacom tablet (and my dinner) literally on top of the keyboard without causing a problem. I have an uninteresting optical corded mouse to the right, on an interesting metal mousepad with two different textured sides and little rubber feet. The mouse cord is in a gumbite that hopefully keeps it from getting slammed under the speaker and shortening my available mouse reach.
I posted a picture on Twitter.
Steph did a timeline of Personal Shenanigans in context of The Epidemic, and it was enlightening. I might do similar, especially after this evening's conversation with
cleverthylacine. Having the good keyboard means that I can chat much faster, which means I can chat with more people. So I've been catching up on some of my social life.
cleverthylacine is holed up awaiting test results in San Francisco. She's pretty sure she's got it. We compared her current symptoms and my symptoms from the dreadful cold at the end of January, and ... suffice to say that when I have a reasonable opportunity to get an antibody test done, I'd like to do that.
