h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

An earlier post mentioned clearing your desk. I came up with the idea of a box in which I placed things that I know should be thrown out but just couldn't in case they were needed. I write on it something like "if not needed by Christmas 1999, burn". Needless to say it is still there, un looked at but no-one dare burn it.

Well, I don't work in an office, this desktop be in my home, see.

Now, let's see what I have "decorating" my lovely desk today

We have:

A tin of Brasso
Some floppy disks (bien sur)
A box of "Brymay"(Bryan May?!) matches
A bag of lovely twiglets (opened)
Anonymous box containing old Spectrum games tapes
"Tomb Raider" game CD box
CD-Rom with drivers for my Graphics Card in it
Several empty Guinness cans (here's to waiting)
Two fake Roman coins apparently stolen from a museum in Glasgow by an ex-aquaintance of mine
"Virgin Film Guide"
Copy of "The Player of Games" by Iain M Banks
Really stupid girly plant-pot thing with foreign coins, fossils and (er) a pen-lid in it
"Peter Rabbit" dish from when I was a nipper containing lots of 1 pennys and two pences
Shot-measuring metal thing "acquired" from Bar in Glasgow
Interesting rock "acquired" from Scottish hillside
Filofax containing scribbled addresses and phone-numbers of friends and family (rocking the Bob Hoskins/BT vibe there)
Pencil Sharpener
TV remote control, cast in tasteful yellow plastic
CD with AOL v6 on it
Copy of "Second Foundation" by Issac Asimov

And there you have it

Zagreb :P

My desk at home has a beat up mug with the face of the tin man from the wizard of oz, currently a glass of gin and tonic - half drunk, a pile of papers to go thru, a bag of red hots (candy), and a book "Savage Love" by Dan Savage a columnist who dispenses sex advice. Books is one of the funniest I have read.

Well, I'm at home, not work for this kind of thing. Objects on my desk include:

A tin of Brasso
Stack of floppy disks
Box of Brymay (Brian May?!) matches
Opened bag of tasty twiglets
Box containing tapes of old Spectrum game
CD-Rom of Tombraider Game
CD-Rom with drivers for my Graphics Card
Empty tins of Guinness
Two fake Roman coins which an ex-associate of mine claimed to have stolen from a museum in Glasgow
Copy of "Virgin Film Guide"
Copy of "The Player of Games" by Iain M Banks
Knackered old glasses
Glasses case
Girly Plant pot containing coins, fossils (?) and pen-lids (?!)
various coins
shot-measured "acquired" from pub in Glasgow
interesting rock "acquired" from Scottish hillside

and some other stuff that's not very interesting

Zagreb

Oh! That tweaked my memory, in front of my speaker is a shot glass "borrowed" from a blues bar. Appropriately, it is chipped and cracked.

My office mate has moved out while I was away. So I now have three (3!) desks On one is a laminator and the stuff I'm going to laminate in a filing basket. On this one I have the computer and the phone. On the third there is NOTHING AT ALL (I am a graduate of Trillian's Child's school of filing so, aprt from the 5 photos magnetised to the filing cabinet and the six plants on the windowsills, everything else has been chucked out or filed) What a very smug ! Mind you, this was the first day back