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Sharing Sunday

Since I was so far behind today I thought I'd get a jump on tomorrow... or depending on when you are reading this it could be today. I'm a bit overwhelmed and trying to get back in control but I thought I'd share some of the over whelm with you. The pictures below are a tour of my home office (such as it is and its all too much). We could almost play a where's Waldo kind of game.

Im surrounded by computers, books, arts, notes, and the flotsam of projects unfinished and not started. My 11,000 piece half built lego millennium falcon sits gathering dust. I cannot use my silhouette cutter, due to the pens and Legos on the counter it sits on, buried on a rolling cart under the desk is my piano keyboard (which i don't play very well) and 3 more starship sets to build. The pile of servers sits under my desk and there are 451 tabs open in chrome from 2 different laptops, my phone and a tablet I do research on. Its insane to work this way. There is one of the three walls of books. This is the paperbacks. Hardbound and my hobby books are the small wall to the left and upstairs there is a wall of Ikea shelves 10x15 feet of reference, art, and game books. Sheesh. Something like 200 linear feet of books. My friends gave up helping me move long ago due to the books. This is a lifetime of collecting and I'm starting to feel like its all just clutter.

Why do I tell you this? Because we all work in very different environments in very different ways. This is my starship battlestation..when its all functioning (rarely because everything is old and slow) I can do truly unimaginable things. But I find myself working more often with my oldest, slowest laptop at the kitchen table or the living room couch because it works and its the most portable. I use the desktop mode on my phone with a monitor and keyboard at work to write and do most things during the daytime hours. I love going to coffee shops and writing there for the energy and the weird conversations, but I don't drink coffee.

This goes back to our third place discussion from last week. Where do we work that we feel productive and safe? I like my office most when my wife is on the other side of the table at her desk or when I can hear her outside our door in her studio working on her art.

What does your work space look like, what does your safe place feel like and what makes you more productive?

While you think about that ill get back to my 22,000 unread emails, 451 open tabs, 3 more claude skills to update, two projects for wcp enhancements and the videos for SS10D to create....busy busy busy.

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