Post-It Mayhem

Knowing my love for all things Post-It note, Marty sent me this link yesterday via IM.

Awesome stuff.



EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

Almost Time...

Getting very close... Possibly this week or early next...

Confused?

See here and here.

a haiku

So... I was feeling artistic and wrote a haiku this morning... actually, after some research it appears that I actually wrote a senryū.

How fascinating....

Anyway. Here is it is for your enjoyment.

good for taking notes
reminders, to-do's, doodles
my thanks to 3M

To be truly appreciated, this particular haiku must be presented on the medium to which it refers... So I give you a photo.

Almost time to clean off the pike again...

Computer Environment

I love it when Tersie has posts like this...
Blogs like this one are fun to read, and fun to participate in.

"Name five things laying around your computer"

Haha! Have you seen this mess! Let me show you...

Now... How do I narrow this down...

1. Empties - Yes, the Tim Hortons cups are empty. Yes, they are trash. No, I haven't thrown them away even though they are both several days old... I actually made a mobile out of a few empties here a while back. I should probably add these to the chain...

Oh, and Yes, that is a Marty Ford Experience Poster hanging on cube wall. I should get him to autograph it for me.

2. Storage - In the photo above there are seven hard drives (not counting the one in my laptop, which technically makes it eight). Five of them are in external disk enclosures where I keep my digital "stuff". One of them is still in the wrapper, destined for my sister's iBook. And the last one has been disassembled so that I can use it for a mirror on the rare occasion that I want to see myself.

3. Hand Santizer - I seriously think that I am addicted to this stuff. I keep a pump bottle on my desk, and at least one squeeze bottle in my backpack, and a few more little bottles on my coffee table at home, in the van, etc. I probably go through a pump bottle at my desk every four to six weeks. The first thing I do when I take my seat (every time I sit down) is squeeze the pump. Does it really protect me from germs? I have no clue, but it does make my hands feel soft and smell good.

4. Post-Its! - I've explained my Post-It Note obsession in a previous post. With that being said, I currently have six "active" post-its on my desk with lists, to-dos, scribbles, and notes on them. You can barely see in the far right of the photo the Post-It Pike (also mentioned in said earlier post).

5. The Pen - How could I post about the things adorning my desktop without mentioning my trusty writing utensil. I've also blogged about my pen obsession before. To that end, my current writing stick is a Pilot Varsity Disposable fountain pen. My Aunt Marilyn gave me this pen at Kayla's wedding when we got to discussing fountain pens.

I've not taken the time to blog about it yet, but on Labor Day weekend I happened to be in Tuttle Mall and stopped into the Paradise Pen store, where I was "fitted" for a fountain pen. It was an amazing experience (not to mention I got to write with some really really expensive ink pens). It was there that I also discovered my new dream pen, the Cross Apogee in Frosty Steel.

Wow...

Well, that is quite enough rambling from me for the time being. If you are at all curious about the rest of this mess, I'd be happy to explain any of it.

Roogles out.

Out with the old...

Last Thursday or so, it occurred to me that my office was a complete disaster... I started toying with the idea of cleaning it up, which I half-heartedly started by trying to clear the Post-It notes off of my desk, monitor, laptop stand, lamp, phone, whiteboard, and whatever other surfaces I had them stuck to... A couple of years ago, for Christmas, Grandma and Grandpa Turner got me a desk set that included what I like to call a Post-It Pike... I use Post-It notes like a maniac. I doodle on them while I’m thinking, scribble snippets of code on them while I’m programming, take notes on them while I’m on the phone, leave reminders to myself on about any surface they will stick to, use them for bookmarks, write down prayer requests, and on and on and on... When I’m “done” with a Post-It, I impale it onto my pike...

Have I mentioned yet, that I am a pack rat? I have a terrible time throwing anything away... I impale my used Post-Its on the pike for a variety of reasons, but mainly b/c there is a lingering whisper in the back of my mind that I might need a phone number, bit of Perl, password, serial number, URL that I’ve scribble on a note that has made it’s way to the pike... Since I got my Post-It Pike, I have filled it up three times, when it finally gets so full that I have to clean it off or more notes won’t fit, then I shuffle the whole lot of them off into a cardboard box or large envelope, then I sign and date a new note and make it the first victim of the now empty pike... ( that way I have a rough idea of how much time has passed between times that I have to clean the stack off ).

When I started to clean my desk last week I realized quickly that all of the Post-Its which needed cleared off of the variety of surfaces would not make the pike, and so I had to clear them... July 5, 2005. That’s when I started the last stack... Crazy huh? I flipped through them, as a pulled them off in clumps and committed them to the small box, where my pre-piked notes find their resting place ( see, I still can’t bring myself to throw them out ) and recalled the phone conversations, projects worked on, groceries picked up, prayers prayed, to-do’s both done and lingering undone...

It is crazy how quickly time gets away from us... I have a two year old daughter, and though I feel like she was born just yesterday, she was almost a year old already when I started the most recent stack of notes on the pike... By the time I clear this stack away there will be another little Roogles running around, Elllie will have settled settled into her role as a big sister, friends will have come and gone, current projects will be packed away, and an entire new set of adventures will be opening up before me...

Out with the old... Here’s looking forward to the new.