two jars of almond-beeswax mixture, one with olive oil added for corks and tenon threads, one with linseed oil and some turpentine for outsides (of recorders and my harp, no wooden whistle (yet))
sticky tack substitute I finally found. It’s called UHU tac patafix.
black feadog head on LBW tube
harp tuning key
Soodlum Mello D
LBW head on black feadog tube
Susato A
Gen Bb
Susato Joint Grease- Meg C
Powerbook
notepad with list of tunes currently being worked on
Matt Mollow “Shadows on Stone” CD booklet
hifi remote
electronic tuner
I didn’t realize earlier, but I think I’m quite happy making music again.
Three empty coffee cups, a pile of my daughter’s drawings, my digital camera, a Dixon D, and my daughter’s dirty socks (I’m going to have to have another talk with her about that!)
Cell Phone
Chinese Food Menu
Can of “Omar Juice”
CD’s (Fonnmhor and Howie Day)
Swingline Stapler
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on DVD
About 34 small plastic ninjas
Hot Wheels racecar
Bobblehead Dog
4 Books by Roger Ebert (Most were gifts, I swear)
Lamp
Checkbook
Modern Greek Dictionary
Coconut head
The shelf is lined with notes and drwings by my girlfriend.
I’m not so sure this is a good idea, since I haven’t cleaned my desk in a few days now…
A cd binder of computer CDs
A 20-CD tower of music cds…also has some Senior Night tickets, a packing list, and a photocopy of some liner notes jammed into it (thanks Tyg! ). A box of Kleenex is on top of the tower.
A roll of scotch tape
A VCR, which I finally hooked up last week. On this sits my computer monitor/speakers, a VCR remote, an eraser, extra pencil lead, and a miniature RC car
An open pack of Rayovac batteries - 11 AA and 2 C
A pair of “scissors” from a travel sewing kit
A portable radio
An empty 35mm film canister
A minidisc recorder soft case (yes, just the case), two minidisc hard cases and two loose minidiscs. One of them is from playing around with making up melodies and I forget what is on the other one.
A video tape that some friends and I made in 1990 and was recently rediscovered
A half-full/half-empty bottle of water
Six hard clear plastic art cases, about 1x4x7 inches. I wanted the case they came in for something else. The top one has pens in it now.
An empty case for earphones…wow, lots of empty stuff on this desk.
A cordless telephone
Various scraps of paper that I won’t bore you with: four full size, an envelope, and a bunch of little ones
Sound blaster breakout box with a stereo cord running from it, and an optical cable next to it
Real scissors, and a stapler
A metal cup with a bunch of pens/pencils in it
A wooden whistle stand carved by Mack Hoover. Currently has a Laughing D, Laughing C, Syn and a homemade whistle
A spare button
An empty bottle of juice that I’ve been meaning to take out
A handsbreadth-high stack of CDs (there’s thrice that on the printer table) topped by forgotten paper and Carson’s pocket guide to ITM, an ashtray-cum-paperweight (more forgotten paper), a coffeecup-cum-penholder containing a tube of superglue, a mechanic’s thermometer, a wee screwdriver, brass rods, a glove stretcher (don’t ask), a tiger-striped pencil with a cute li’l tiger head on the end (makes me think of you, Tyghress ), a rather mistreated chopstick, and a pen. It doesn’t work. A sandstone coaster with a coffeecup-cum-empty coffecup upon it, a Bb maple fife, its foot ferrule standing aside, a “banker’s” lamp, an industrial razor blade (why??), a really grungy US quarter, and the rest doesn’t need mentioning.
My desk is actually my old camp trunk, so it’s not large enough for too much interesting stuff, but here it is from left to right:
-A book on the Celts, my diaries, a Campmor catalogue, an Outward Bound Course catalogue, a little beanbag lizard, a pocketknife–all stacked on top of my drawing notebook and shoebox full of notes and old birthday cards
-Gen Bb in a little vase
-Elfsongs on homemade pegs
-old jam jar full of cheapie whistles
-a big board with my Outward Bound pictures on it
-computer mic
-webcam
Have a great evening all! I just got my course catalogue for college and boy am I psyched!
Lets see, computer tower, flight sims only, on top of that a force feedback joystick and a stack of paper work that I have no idea is about, various lighters, tobacco and rolling papers, 3 pens, none of which work, my old man glasses, empty coffee cup with its own patina, sheet music for
Anach Cuain and Bruach Na Carraige Baine, still converting the notes to letters guitar tuner, Parkhurst Eb, Clark Original D and my garbage can whistle,(yes I found it in someones garbage can, dont know what it is but I like it, may be a coopermans) two keyboards, one for flight sims only, overflowing ashtray, my Dixon rosewood flute which I just finished oiling and am about to let my breath trickel through, capo, bunch of notes with most of your names on them, oh wow my tire preasure guage, Ive been looking for that and a magnifying glass, two monitors, one with a bf-109G on it and the other with a Spitfire Mark-9 on it. Oh and a jug of almound oil, and a bag of cheetos. That`s it. Oh and my other computer tower which I use for the internet and here.
Well what I can see is:
monitor
scanner
printer
zip drive
usb hub
speakers
Irish Wisdom Calendar
a pen and pencil
a coaster with a diet pepsi
a gen Bflat
a Susato D
a Feadan D
a Sweetone D
about 6 sheets of music
a microphone
digital camera
phone
the Maryland crabbing laws and season
and 2 plants
Order and organization is not one of my long suits. I believe in the old saying, " If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk the sign of."
Ron
Phew! You caught me on a clean day (though I do have several desks, I’ll only list the clean one )
Stack of CD’s, jewel cases, liners
Printer, monitor
Phone
Tascam US-224 mixer
2 VeggieTales VCR tapes
Muppets in Space DVD
Letter from James Dobson
Coat hanger (why is there a coat hanger on my desk? - hmm, it’s child sized)
Bills, account statements, bills
Pictures of Ukrainian eggs
Sunglasses needing returning
Video cam.
A few misc. pieces of paper.
REI dividend.
Um… stacks of papers and stickers
half bag of shrimp chips
bag of shell buttons
half bottle of Sprite Remix
Abell whistle in D
“smooch” stamper
computer tower with things on it: - little dolls
Boromir clock a friend made for me as a joke
CD’s WFO, Riverdance, More Riverdance, soundtrack for Chicago
monitor, speakers and keyboard
vase of fake blue flowers for that outdoorsy feel
pen stand containing: - pens, scissors, misc papers
and assorted swizzle sticks with mini drinks on top of them
some fake Civil War era money
mouse on a Star Trek magic motion mouse pad
picture of my skye “Bigun”(Ch. Buffalo Drumnacoub) winning the terrier group, High Point,NC, May 1985
*his show lead
*picture of my skye"Blossom"(my avatar- Ch. Buffalo Blackberry Blossom)
winning Best of Winners at 8 months , with my then 8 year old daughter
handling, 1985
lamp
an old ironstone teapot from the thirties that I found when we moved here- it belonged to my husband’s grandmother.
The shelves-
*dictionary
*several copies of the Virginia Winery Guide
*cd’s
*bank statement folders
Desk top-
printer, scanner, more cd’s, cd burner, camera hook-up
*wine catalogs
*new wine label design I should be working on right now
*pictures of a 30’s kitchen
*my younger daughter’s tax papers- not filed yet! not my fault either!
*speakers
*one of the new cobalt blue 375 ml wine bottles that just arrived for our ice wine.
*coaster and glass of water
*my mom’s photo album of her and my dad when they were young
Whew! Glad you didn’t ask on a day I had not cleaned.
). A box of Kleenex is on top of the tower.
guitar tuner, Parkhurst Eb, Clark Original D and my garbage can whistle,(yes I found it in someones garbage can, don