Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for January 03, 2023

facepalm …. someone is having a spying cam in my room … AGAIN!

Uh dude just how do you get in there. And how do you get out when it’s time for a bathroom break.

I’m sensing he’s going to look like Jabba the Hut by midyear.

the virtual AND the physical one!

Cleaning lady breaking in a new cleaning lady in my office, “Just empty his basket and do-not touch anything else.”

That is a good start, now let’s move on to the rest of the room.

My windows desktop looks like his floor. Also my physical desktop.

He looks a little old to have a teenager’s room. Is he in his parents’ basement? (Where’s all the Star Trek stuff?)

next, thee office you cluttered up to make that happen. :D

For some people, “out of sight, out of mind,” is a real issue. Work-in-progress has to be visible or else it is sidelined or forgotten. My desk at work (and quite a few others) would have files and papers piled on top [in specific locations]. My computer desktop held multiple folders, files, and documents and my email inbox would contain months of messages pertaining to all my on-going projects. A new (and thankfully temporary) manager insisted that we all maintain neat, tidy, clear desktops and inboxes both on and off the computer. He believed that ‘a tidy desk means a tidy mind’. Everything had to be filed away every day [and he did a walk-through to check every afternoon]. Not surprisingly, people started being late for or missing meetings, getting deadlines confused, losing track of paperwork, etc. It took his supervisor just a few months to realize the problem — people need to organize their own stuff or else they can get disoriented. She reassigned the manager to a ‘top priority’ joint project where he would be working with a team from different agencies. Within a few days of his leaving, we were almost back to our normal, functioning selves.

Looks just like my bosses office except the desk is just like the room

Unfortunately, there are people whose entire house looks like this. Very sad.

OMG, I couldn’t work in that trashed room…

A ‘Luann’ crossover comic?

The desktop of my Mac fills with screen snaps, photos, downloaded documents etc. REALLY FAST! I have a fabulous utility (PARALLELS TOOLBOX) that has a “Hide Desktop Files” feature, among dozens of other useful ones. The utility lives in my menu bar where it’s just a click away. It leaves me with only the beautiful Wallpaper I’ve selected for the week. I use the feature to visit the real desktop numerous times in a day – that’s where a lot of useful stuff is lingering, but then I go back to my fantasy clean desktop ;-)PS – available for Windows too (I think it has a free trial period). VERY highly recommended. Oh, the room where I’m working is a terrible mess.

This year I organized my sock drawer!

My house – is a very very messy house. With three cats on my keyboard, a dog around my ankles, yet nothing is easy cause of wife.

Every time I organize my desktop, some stupid program poops out a new shortcut icon that I neither need nor want. Apple is a prime offender.

All that clutter is blocking his use of Windows.