BrainStream: I'm having a "What's on

I'm having a "What's on your desk" moment and, for a change, feeling strangely invigorated this afternoon. Of course, the home office desk was picked up by the wife - something I REALLY appreciate. I'm working on an editing project and CANNOT work when surrounded by clutter. I get distracted. I thought about listing "general" groups of things...but then, how can you get a good idea of who a person is if you don't explain EVERYTHING. Not only that but I tried to link as much as I could. I need a life. ;)

Enjoy.

Anyway, I currently have my laptop, a charging Audiovox cellphone, a vial of seasalt and a few drops of peppermint oil (keeps me awake and alert), a bottle of Aleve from a previous headache, a Sycom Total Recall 23 personal voice recorder (for taking notes, recording interviews), J.K. Rowling's 2 Comic Relief books, The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft (the BBB or Big Blue Book), a PowerComm 3000 surge protecter, a Sun Microsystems 19in monitor, a green Sony 1.44 floppy disk, the casette case for a mix a friend made for me in high school, a 100MB Zip Disk of my wedding pictures, a .5liter bottle of Poland Springs, pictures from DefCon 2 yrs back, a handcarved statue of an old whaler, a sculpture of a mouse my mother handmade when she was in high school, blank envelopes, a set of unplugged Altec Lansing speakers, 2 linings of a casette case for more high school mixes, a stapler, a picture of myself and the wife in Williamsburg dressed in colonial garb - picture frame says "In your eyes I see the First Day of Forever" *sigh*.

SEVERAL business cards - both mine and others from years of conferences, a tiny wooden bench missing it's dog and cat figurines that sit on it, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, XML by Example, Teach Yourself XML in 24 hrs., 2 notepads - one with scrawlings from this week's work meetings and another with notes from herbalism class, manual for my old Motorola g520 cell phone, membership information for the UMass Alumni Association, manual for my Nomad Jukebox that I haven't used more than 10 times since I've gotten it, a Canon BJC-2010 printer missing the data cable, a box of Kleenex, a beige touch-tone phone, a SanDisk CompactFlash PC Card Adapter, an old, red Boy Scout Swiss Army Knife, a small box of four Energizer Industrial Alkaline AA batteries, a large Swingline stapler, a box of Strawberry Pocky, another box of Reduced Fat Wheat Thins, the insert from an MSDN CD, an old IBM 1.44" floppy disk, a Christmas Card "CD" from a reporter friend of mine, Adobe Photoshop 5.0 CD, a small 12-CD black cloth case with assorted CDs stuffed in the slots and in the front, a CD of Gilberto & Getz, another 100MB disk, loose Massachusetts for Folk CD, a demo of the Wild Wild West PC game, CD of Jonatha Brooke's Plumb, a blank CD no doubt containing a demo of a client's software, another blank CD, a CDR with files from a 9/2000 backup of my machine, drivers for my 3Com Network card, a Sugar Hill Sampler, and the cover from Ken Goddard's recent book "Outer Perimeter" - and that's not distracting.

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BrainStream: So, this next week will

So, this next week will be a doozy. I have my mother-in-law visiting all week - whom I would never survive without. Every couple of months she come to visit for a week or two, and completely cleans & reorganizes our house. She's amazing! Plus, I have my youngest brother showing up Monday afternoon with his "girl friend". Yes, one space. He refuses to confirm or deny their relationship so I have to wait and see. Now since she's only 18 and on Spring Break from a college on the shores of Eastern Maryland, she is being accompanied by her friend. So I have 6 people in the house until Wed when my brother and his entorauge depart and my wife heads to Maryland for a conference. She will be returning Friday with her father (to pick up her mother) and my the middle child in my family, whom I invited up since he also enjoys working on projects with my father-in-law.

Wow. I'm going to need a vacation after all this ;)

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