What's on your desk?

What's on your desk?

Here's what's on my desk at home, from left to right and back to front:

• Computer speakers.


• 150GB external hard drive.


• Logitech USB mouse.


• A picture of The Child and her friend.


• A stack of paper fortune tellers.


• A desk caddy containing three pens, two pencils, a stack of post-its, a stack of bills, postage stamps, and a 2GB SD card.


• A coiled-up bit of pipe cleaner.


• A piece of driftwood.


• A checkbook.


• A Nintendo DS.


• Acer LCD computer monitor.


• Batgirl, Batman, and Captain America.


• A pinecone.


• Mac Mini.


• iPod dock.


• The mouse for the Macintosh.


• Two old checkbooks.


• A blank CD.


• A piece of pottery that's supposed to go with me to my office.


• My glasses.


• A box of tissues.


• A wedding invitation.


• A stack of receipts.


• A couple of music CDs.


• A sketchbook.


• A Memory Stick for a PSP.


• A boxed copy of Media Manager for PSP.


• Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War.


• The September 2007 Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.


• Another stack of post-its.


• A business card holder for my wallet.


• A pair of earbuds.


• The Child's nametag from her desk at school.


• A cloth for cleaning my laptop screen.


• The aforementioned laptop.


• The remote for the Mac Mini.


• A permission slip for a field trip--it's waiting for me to dig out four bucks.


• A renewal form for National Geographic.


• My cell phone.


• My iPod.


• A stack of our tax info.


• Two copies of TurboTax (they sent 'em to me in the mail; you pay for it online, so it's not like I'm getting charged twice).


• The following books:
  
  
  
  • Robbins, "HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference"
  
  
  • Meyer, "CSS Pocket Reference"
  
  
  • Maxwell, "Leadership 101"
  
  
  • Arthur, "The First-Time Manager's Guide to Performance Appraisals"
  
  
  • Killian, "Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy"
  
  
  • Howard, "The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian"
  
  
  
  


• The Logitech wireless mouse for the laptop.

It sounds like a lot, but the desk is actually neat and organized.