I just finished writing Year of the Dog ! It had a massive plot hole that I had to fix which turned out to be more work than I expected. Here’s a snippet: “Hey, Auntie Nell.” He wrapped his arms around her, bussing her on the cheek and breathing in pikake flowers and shortbread cookies. And suddenly he was nine years old again, and her solid presence had made his chaotic world stable once more. “What are you doing here?” He usually took her to dinner on Wednesday nights, but today was Tuesday. The edges of her smile faltered a little before brightening right back up again. “What, I can’t visit my nephew?” She angled around him to enter his home. “Is this your new house? Looks lovely.” Which was a blatant lie, because the fixer-upper was barely livable, much less acceptable to a neat-freak like his aunt. She also left four matching pink and purple floral suitcases on the stoop behind her. Only then did Ashwin notice the cab driver standing slightly to the side of the walkway. “Can ...
Captain’s Log, Supplemental
I can’t really complain much about my desk because it was free. A company was going out of business, and they had left their office desks out in the parking lot for anyone to take. So, naturally, we did. :)
It’s a cheap desk, heavy and relatively large. The two file drawers are starting to sag, and the bottoms of the drawers are coming off again (we’d had to nail them in when we first got the desk).
The biggest problem is that the desk is too tall. I have a footrest and I raise my ergonomic chair up to its tallest height, but my chair is still too low for me to comfortably type with the keyboard on the desk.
I shifted the keyboard to my lap, but my trackball is still on the desk.
I like change. Especially when it occurs in my workspace. So I’ve been toying with the idea of what I can do about this problem.
We considered one of those keyboard/mouse drawers that can be attached to the bottom of the desk, which would solve the ergonomic problem.
However, I want to try something I heard about a long time ago but never did—a writer once suggested buying a flat (not beveled) door and raising it to the proper height on cinderblocks.
The hole for the doorknob is perfect for the computer cords to run down under the door. The door also has a larger surface area than my desk now.
I have a desk organizer with drawers for all my pens and things that are in the desk drawers now. I also have a tall file cabinet for the files in my file drawers (which aren’t very many, since the files are mostly in the tall cabinet).
I think it’s a wonderful idea. It’ll also enable me to get rid of a low table I’ve been putting my printer and PC tower on, and once the low table is gone, the door will fit in the same spot as my desk with about six inches to spare. I can also get a narrow bookshelf to enable me to get more vertical storage space.
So, Captain Caffeine is searching on Craigslist for anyone selling a door. Now I only have to worry about not buying one with termites!
I can’t really complain much about my desk because it was free. A company was going out of business, and they had left their office desks out in the parking lot for anyone to take. So, naturally, we did. :)
It’s a cheap desk, heavy and relatively large. The two file drawers are starting to sag, and the bottoms of the drawers are coming off again (we’d had to nail them in when we first got the desk).
The biggest problem is that the desk is too tall. I have a footrest and I raise my ergonomic chair up to its tallest height, but my chair is still too low for me to comfortably type with the keyboard on the desk.
I shifted the keyboard to my lap, but my trackball is still on the desk.
I like change. Especially when it occurs in my workspace. So I’ve been toying with the idea of what I can do about this problem.
We considered one of those keyboard/mouse drawers that can be attached to the bottom of the desk, which would solve the ergonomic problem.
However, I want to try something I heard about a long time ago but never did—a writer once suggested buying a flat (not beveled) door and raising it to the proper height on cinderblocks.
The hole for the doorknob is perfect for the computer cords to run down under the door. The door also has a larger surface area than my desk now.
I have a desk organizer with drawers for all my pens and things that are in the desk drawers now. I also have a tall file cabinet for the files in my file drawers (which aren’t very many, since the files are mostly in the tall cabinet).
I think it’s a wonderful idea. It’ll also enable me to get rid of a low table I’ve been putting my printer and PC tower on, and once the low table is gone, the door will fit in the same spot as my desk with about six inches to spare. I can also get a narrow bookshelf to enable me to get more vertical storage space.
So, Captain Caffeine is searching on Craigslist for anyone selling a door. Now I only have to worry about not buying one with termites!
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