"What's On *Your* Desk?" -- from the rest of abbela's friends

[azurelunatic]

From East to West --

• disk box, open. Photo disks, schoolwork, blank disks. Not much writing. Random programmage I don't want to lose if my hard drive should go bonkers.
  
• Power cable for laptop
  
• Printer, w/o ink cartridge: Canon BJC 2114
  
• single pushpin
  
• smaller disk box, closed
  
• You Don't Know Jack program disk, not installed yet
  
• power cable for printer
  
• link cable for printer/computer
  
• phone line from wall to computer
  
• two hair clippy-things, the kind with teeth, biting each other and beating them up for stating their beliefs
  
• black CD case bearing the legend "JL Case 1" in glow-in-the-dark paint, filled with CD's, starting with Ace of Base: The Sign and going down the alphabet to The Refreshments (collection resumed with R.E.M. in Case 2, which is in the living room somewhere) (JL are the first letter of my first name and the first letter of my middle name; when I initial things I use these initials and ignore my family name)
  
• random penciled cartoon: Person on telephone, shaggy hair, saying: "On a scale from one to ten, this survey was a complete waste of my time, about a negative fifty." Electronic speech bubble from phone: "But, ma'am, you're the telephone survey person!"
  
• Oscar Meyer hotdog whistle (roommate's)
  
• watch, digital (roommate's, beeps once an hour on its version of "the hour")
  
• caffeine pills in bottle, Safeway brand
  
• hair bead
  
• teeny headphones
  
• laptop computer
  
• two mousepads, one with the jelly wrist-saver, the other (on top of the first) with a mandala/maze design and good traction for the mouse
  
• plastic bag from purchase of Callisto
  
• Linux & Unix command-line quick reference sheet
  
• out-of-state (and damn near out of country) debit card (run as credit card because out of state) recipt from $42.72 (plus sales tax) worth of groceries, featuring Mountain Dew
  
• checkbook
  
• blank sheet of paper
  
• Iomega programmage, for backing up hard drive w/ zip disk.
  

and thaaat's all, folks.

Wow. I must have cleaned up.

Seriously, though, a better one would be What's On My Bathroom Counter. Hmm.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

He wants a shoehorn / the kind with teeth / 'cause he knows there's no such thing.

Yep. Hooray for John and John!!