My Hovel

**mimitabby** · 10-25-2007, 07:31 AM

the down side to this cool looking huge room is there is so much particulate garbage in there that if I am down there for 5 minutes my nose and eyes start to run. We had hazmat folks come out and they tested it and they said it was safe enough to eat... a kind of fire retardant salt. salt irritates the eyes too...
sigh.. so it's kind of like outer space, cool looking, but not safe to be there.
I mostly sit in a beige cube like everyone else though.
it took me 20 years to get a window.. I have a nice window now.. i love it.

**Pax** · 10-25-2007, 10:10 AM

Mimi - I aspire to a window some day. As it is now I have to check the weather website to see if I need an umbrella.

**mtbdarby** · 10-25-2007, 11:13 AM

This is fun!

Here's mine. My cubicle on the left and my window view to the shop - I'm a tradeshow project manager.

**Pax** · 10-25-2007, 11:27 AM

Hey Dar, does anyone ever mess with you from the other side of the glass? I'm envisioning jumping up out of nowhere yelling "BOO". Or maybe just staring and staring and staring at you while you're concentrating.

**mtbdarby** · 10-25-2007, 12:41 PM

No - it's on the second story

They throw stress balls or wadded balls of masking tape at the window to get our attention.

**sandra** · 10-25-2007, 05:45 PM

I'm not at work right now, but here's where I hang out at home. Anyone know what I can do with the mess of wires to the right of the desk?

**SheFly** · 10-26-2007, 03:54 AM

Originally Posted by sandra

Anyone know what I can do with the mess of wires to the right of the desk?

Zip ties. I used this trick in my home office to try to keep things semi-under control. Just zip tie all of the wires together, and it looks a "little" less messy.

SheFly

**blueskies** · 10-26-2007, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by sandra

I'm not at work right now, but here's where I hang out at home. Anyone know what I can do with the mess of wires to the right of the desk?

Sandra, The Container Store has this Cable Zipper product:

http://tinyurl.com/yp89n7

I haven't tried it, but just remembered seeing things like this. I'm sure that you can similar things at other organizing stores.

Personally, I'm challenged enough by the top of my desk, that I haven't gotten around to organizing what lives underneath!

I'm loving this thread. Sandra & Lisa, you're pictures are inspiring to me. My home needs a little attention...

**7rider** · 10-25-2007, 06:00 PM

I work in boring cubicle-land on the 13th floor (yeah, I know, an unlucky floor - but it's really the 16th story, if you count the plaza and 2 mezzanine levels below the 1st, so it sort of confounds the bad juju of 13!) in the middle of a city. Nothing worth taking a picture of. Think "Dilbert".
But....I had this cute visitor outside my window today. I think it's a kestrel, but it was all wet from the rain, and busy preening. This was taken with my cell phone through a triple-pane window, so it's not great....

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 10-25-2007, 07:13 PM

I work at home (technical illustrator), so I'm pretty lucky in that respect. My office is upstairs in one of our two small "attic" rooms. I'm here typing right now.

When i got a great new computer last year, it came with like 8 speakers for "surround sound". I asked DH if we could just hook up 2 speakers- i dont "need" surround sound. But no, they all had to be connected for the computer sound to work at all. So.... you can see all the speakers dumped into a shoebox under my desk- that's my highly sophisticated "surround sound" setup.

Two minutes after I took the picture a cat was lying on my desk, as usual.

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**SheFly** · 10-26-2007, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.

Two minutes after I took the picture a car was lying on my desk, as usual.

Hope that was a small caR

.

SheFly

p.s.
My cat does the same thing - I think it's the warmth generated by the PCs.

**Tuckervill** · 10-26-2007, 04:29 AM

Lisa, that room looks JUST like my bedroom in my attic. It's only 9x9. Yours is probably longer, at least. My ceiling is only 7 ft high.

I wish I had my hardwood floors uncovered. We're going to build on a master bedroom and then that little room will be an office, too.

Karen

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 10-26-2007, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by Tuckervill

Lisa, that room looks JUST like my bedroom in my attic. It's only 9x9. Yours is probably longer, at least. My ceiling is only 7 ft high.

I wish I had my hardwood floors uncovered. We're going to build on a master bedroom and then that little room will be an office, too.

Karen

Yes, mine is about 9x15. It's just a very cheap old pine subfloor. Actually, it had old disintegrating linoleum from the 60's stuck on it with black ASPHALT TAR (!!) and when we bought the house we had a guy grind it all down to the pine. Then I varnished in with clear. Looks refreshing with no covering on it.

Shefly- yes, I meant a CAT on my desk.

Sandra- I'd give you the speakers but apparently they need to stay hooked up for my sound to work at all. Sadly, I cannot deal with any kind of music while I'm thinking or working in my office, even soft volume- it's just too distracting to me for some reason.

I love working in the quiet.

Silver- very nice shields!

**sandra** · 10-26-2007, 09:17 AM

Lisa, I love that pine floor. It may be a subfloor, but it's not a cheap ole floor. I'd love to have that instead of this engineered hardwood that I have.

**Jo-n-NY** · 10-26-2007, 04:50 AM

Silver,

Your work is incredible. The shields are amazing.

~ JoAnn

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