The Family

365.61 – Office Space

Here is a decent shot of my ‘office space’. We don’t do doors and we also don’t really have any desks that don’t have curves somewhere. We can thank the design firm that owned this office space before us.

A few mundane details:

I do put my monitors so they are wider than tall; worth it for coding and reading documentation. I also test our application in a lower resolution, so it fits one screen perfectly. (well, and that’s the normal resolution of most of our users too)

The desk space on the left side is mostly storage space. I love it as it keeps my space empty. I also keep my office phone over there as I don’t use it much.

Yes, I do have two trash cans. Dunno how that happened exactly.

That blue cable along the back wall is my power connection because there is no power plug in the wall on the side my computer sits.

I know the glaring white power cable for my under-shelf lights doesn’t fit the decor. I didn’t have time to do better, and it works… so it remains.

And yes, that is a Red Swingline stapler. It’s the best stapler in the office, so it is often stolen/borrowed. Not sure if that counts as irony or not, but it makes me laugh.

Also, if you click the link through to flickr, I’ve made other notes on the picture itself.

So here we are in Denver while a hurricane bears down on Houston. I should have thought to bag and box up important papers and take really important papers to Chris for the duration of my trip, but i didn’t.

We have neighbors, of course, who are taking care of the place, but if something catastrophic happens, it is so much better for the home owner to be there. So Luke went. He flew out early this morning, Friday. He said the plane was full. I tried to find a flight yesterday but they were all out of reasonably priced tickets. Why are all these people going to Houston??? Do they all live there or have elderly relatives to care for?

Last night as we were packing and arranging for someone to pick him up at the airport, we learned that our neighbor sent his son and another teenager over to put the wood up on the windows. That was fine, but then we learned that they gave our leftover clips to a neighbor who had not been able to buy any because the store was out. We should not have had any left over clips! Perhaps it is a good thing Luke will be there in time to go over things.

As i sit here, watching the weather channel, i wish i was there too, but i know Luke is glad to have me away.

Pat called yesterday morning. He said the tide is several feet high and the waves in the panhandle of Florida were 13 feet high, higher then they have ever been, and were tearing up bridges. Amazing when the storm is closing in on Texas for it to be doing so much damage all along the gulf coast. Fortunately it has not strengthened like they said it might.

Preparing for the worst and hoping for the best…. I would like for my trees and roof and shed and carpet to survive. Perhaps i should be worried about my husband, but he is so competent it is hard to think of him as being in danger. At least we are not right on the coast. According to the weather channel, the coast is already under water.