{"id":15524,"date":"2016-07-28T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15524"},"modified":"2016-07-28T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:36:15","slug":"five-things-on-my-desk-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/five-things-on-my-desk-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things On My Desk (VI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve cut my office hours, so my desk is starting to clutter again.  Back when I was handling the children full time, I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time in my office(s), so I&#8217;d drop things onto the wings of the big corner desk I have, and the piles would get several inches high.  When I had a full time contract a couple years back, the desk was pretty tidy.  But the desk is starting to accumulate things on the margins, out of peripheral vision when I&#8217;m looking at my peripherals.  So to shame myself I am pointing out some of them.<\/p>\n<p>I could go with a list of five (or more) things I&#8217;ve already blogged about, including tickets and the playbill for <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/theatre-review-black-comedy-by-peter-schaffer\/\" target=\"_new\">Black Comedy<\/a>, an <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/on-ideals\/\" target=\"_new\">Ideals<\/em><\/a>, a couple copies of Battlestar Galactica and a drawing I got <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/20\/the-road-to-saint-charles\/\" target=\"_new\">in Saint Charles<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/i-can-bring-home-the-sizzlean\/\" target=\"_new\">an Afghani currency<\/a> I previously posted about in a Five Things on My Desk post from 2012 (although instead of a Trinidad and Tobago dollar, it&#8217;s partnered with a Somali bill that I don&#8217;t know where I got).<\/p>\n<p>But, no, I won&#8217;t take the easy way out.<\/p>\n<p>So here are five things currently on my desk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A plaque with my hand print that I made in kindergarten.<\/b>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/handplaque.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>I kept it out while digging through a box of mementos because I thought about hanging it up, and I&#8217;ve yet to put a little loop of something to do so.  As it&#8217;s been sitting on my desk, my children like to come put their hands in it, either to marvel at how much smaller than their hands their father&#8217;s hands once were or to free Mars.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>A flier with support information for Windows 3.11.<\/b>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/windowsguidetoservice.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>This has probably been carried along in a box for twenty some years; my mother had a Windows 3.11 machine that probably came to me when she upgraded, and I have a refurb laptop with Windows 3.11 on it even today.  I think I have the installer somewhere around here if I ever get a crazy itch to install it again.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>A Toys for Tots Foundation coin.<\/b>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/toysfortotscoin.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the strangest thing.  This came in the mail with a fundraising appeal, and although I didn&#8217;t give them any money, I kept the coin.  I dunno what I was thinking.  The boys would play with it?  Regardless, the boys are aging out of the part of their youth where they&#8217;ll happily play with some metal coin.  Yet, I can&#8217;t throw it out.  So it sits on my desk until the next cleaning frenzy, where I&#8217;ll put it in a box with other assorted tchotchkes.  <br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>A Paperboy handheld game.<\/b>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/paperboy.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>You hardly ever see hand held games at garage sales any more; certainly none of the electronic blip games from the 1980s.  If any, you&#8217;ll find a little LCD screen game like this.  I did, and I have yet to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/the-blip-mounted\/\" target=\"_blank\">mount it on the wall<\/a>.  Sometime when I have a spare moment that I&#8217;m not wasting writing an inconsequential blog post, I&#8217;ll do just that.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Two Wii controllers.<\/b>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/wiicontrollers.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>The children have brought these to my office because the battery terminals are corroded.  &#8220;They have battery acid,&#8221; is how they put it.  One of these days, I&#8217;ll get to it when I Set My Mind To It.  Until then, they&#8217;ll rest easily underneath a pile of other junk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, that only scratches the surface.  But you can&#8217;t write much about a clean desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve cut my office hours, so my desk is starting to clutter again. 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