the office
As Meredith has faithfully reported, our office is now much cleaner. I made a few discoveries:
- My beloved Makita battery drill, which I have owned for my entire adult life, is dying. Specifically, the variable speed switch is dying, and is no longer so variable. It's mostly either on or off. While this saddens me, it's had a good life. But it does make drilling screws into wood quite a bit more challenging.
- Blinds come with screws 'suitable for wood or sheet metal'. This is a lie. Screws are good for one thing or another. After breaking the heads off of two screws, just as they were almost all the way in our wooden trim around the windows, I realized this, and that these screws were good for metal. Well, maybe they were. Sure as hell they weren't good for wood.
- Meredith is right; the room really does look better with blinds instead of sheets. That said, I miss the ability to make the room really dark. Meredith thrives in the light, while I am seldom seen outdoors without sunglasses on. They say that opposites attract.
- Most of the mass of cables on the desk weren't even being used. Actually, this isn't so much a discovery as it is confirmation of what I strongly suspected. There have been four or maybe five different computers used on that desk at various points, not counting laptops, plus who knows how many peripherals (three of the computers are still in use, although the Mac is used pretty rarely now). Each time one went away, the computer or device was taken away, leaving behind a cable or three. This has never happened to me at work because I have never had the same office for this long. Oh, and at Apple I wasn't allowed to update computers as often as I have at home. Hmm.
I'm writing this offline, sitting on Caltrain, headed up to visit meriko & Russell. Meredith is in Berkeley this week, and is already over there. This train is very, very full, more and more with baseball fans. We were just invaded with the Chicago Cubs fan contingent. I haven't followed baseball in years, but I was always a Cubs fan as a kid.
Posted by Mike at August 6, 2002 05:45 PM