05
Jan
I attempt to keep my desk clutter free as I am always more productive with an organized and clutter free desk. However, it doesn’t always stay like that. I have good wire management and keep most hide however as most know its impossible to hide them all. I love my current desk and its made it easy to keep it organized and its plenty big enough (currently supports my Dell 22″ WS LCD and HP 19″ CRT). I am browsing around for a new desk though. I figure since I’m moving to an iMac it would be nice to have a new desk to go along with it and one that is not black as my current. I am currently looking at this one from Ikea. I love that you can adjust everything and its the price range I wanted. I’ve looked at several desks over the last several weeks and this seems to be the one I will be getting. During the process of looking at desks I came across a site called decluttered.com which shows one mans way to organize and wire manage his desk along with a tutorial. I gotta say it makes it look nice. I’m not sure that I would put my router, external HDD, etc like that but a smaller piece of board that I can use cable ties to keep cables off the floor and out of my way. We plan on making a trip to Ikea soon (my first) as now we have one just under 2 hours away in Frisco, TX to pick up the desk and maybe a few other things.
04
Jan
As I posted yesterday we finally bought tickets to Playhouse Disney Live! for January 26 at the Memorial Auditorium at the Wichita Falls MPEC. This will be the first bigger event that we have taken the kids to. Chase, my 4 year old son, is looking forward to it a lot as well as Rachael, my 2 year old daughter. I’m looking forward to taking the kids however I’m not sure about watching Mickey Mouse for 2 hours or being around that many kids for that long. It will be interesting. I don’t mind Chuck E. Cheese as the kids love it and who doesn’t love Skee Ball. 4 tickets for Disney Live came to be $160 which wasn’t that bad. Of course today Melissa finds out the Doodlebops are going to be in OKC the day after. Thank god we already bought the Disney tickets, I’m not sure I could handle the Doodlebops.
03
Jan
We have had a TiVo for awhile now and honestly couldn’t live without. Granted I also use my computer to keep up on our TV shows during the fall season as the TiVo can only record so many and we only have a single tuner Series 2 at the moment. We hardly ever watch live tv anymore. If there isn’t something already sitting on the TiVo to watch we normally don’t watch TV. Not that we spend a lot of time on TV anyways, we spend far more on the internet. My kids have become addicted to TiVo over the past several months when my 4 year old son learned to use the remote and skip his commercials during shows. Both kids (including my 2 year old daughter) can not stand to watch commercials and can not stand live tv anymore. They don’t have a TiVo in their bedroom yet and it just bugs them all day long. It looks like we will be looking to purchase a dual tuner TiVo for the living room and moving ours to their bedroom soon.
In other news we just bought tickets to Playhouse Disney LIVE at the Wichita Falls MPEC for January 26. The price came to $160 but we are in the second row from the stage and have end seats, so it was worth it. Looking forward to it.
