Funk Babblings

It's impossible to keep any flat space in my study free of papers for longer than a few days. At times it gets ridiculous.

When I replaced my CRT with an LCD monitor last year, I was excited to gain a lot of space on my desk. But now all that space is filled with papers and other oddments. No more empty space there.

Whenever I have my laptop docked and closed on my desk for more than a couple days, I end up putting papers on top of that, which of course means I need to move things when I finally want to use it again. (And if I ever moved the portable dock from my desk, the laptop would soon be forced out of its designated deskspace.)

When we moved into our previous house, I bought a cheap drawing desk, complete with tilting surface. I kept it up at an angle, but it still gathered a pile of papers thick enough that I never used it for drawing. When we moved and it started over empty again, the same thing happened -- even faster and thicker this time since I left it flat. I finally gave up and moved the pile to a little TV tray, and the desk to the basement, so I could at least gain some floor space.

My flatbed scanner has a nice big flat surface on the lid.... so there are now three different piles of paper on it. (OK, it's at a disadvantage being next to the printer.) This makes life interesting when I actually want to scan something.

Even my shelved books aren't safe. I have two bookshelves in this room, and both of them have things piled on the top row of books.

At some point I think some sort of flatspace preservation society might want to come in and take over.

mephron tells us that gaming books are subject to confiscation on the New York Waterway ferry. (Unless you fight it, of course.)

How long until we get to return to sanity in this country?