{"id":3415,"date":"2012-06-01T12:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2012-06-01T12:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:07:41","slug":"workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a picture of a new chair to Twitter yesterday. \u00a0Alongside the picture, I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Replaced ten year old home office chair with Something Fancy. Butt approves. Daytime standing desk doesn&#8217;t care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I know, riveting social media, right?)<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the new (incredibly comfy, dangerously reclinable) chair, I removed the small &#8220;ladder&#8221; desk that Kate uses when she brings her laptop in for nerdly together time (not to worry: I replaced it with something considerably more sturdy), and generally did a lot of housecleaning in the workspace, especially in the closet (which got a new shelf unit that ended up mostly empty, thanks to my &#8220;throw it out!&#8221; style of clean-up).<\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, I adhere as closely as I can to the &#8220;It&#8217;s all Too Much&#8221; school of thought when it comes to my living spaces. When I&#8217;m cleaning up I\u00a0focus what, <em>exactly<\/em>, I want a space to be for, and basically just remove everything that doesn&#8217;t directly support that purpose. That might sound pretty zen, but I assure you it&#8217;s anything but new age feng shui.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I want to use my office to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do non-writing computer-related stuff (typically at my desk).<\/li>\n<li>Write (often not at my desk).<\/li>\n<li>Edit\/revise (back at my desk again).<\/li>\n<li>Do computery stuff with my wife and\/or daughter.<\/li>\n<li>Read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, there are a few other things my office needs to be able to do, primarily:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Host some stuff that Sean can play with<\/li>\n<li>Remain resistant to permanent Sean-related damage to the stuff Sean can&#8217;t play with<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To this end, my home office has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new, still-kind-of-fume-laden, super-comfy chair.<\/li>\n<li>My monstrous, utterly impractical desk.<\/li>\n<li>My &#8216;side desk&#8217; for laptops and hardcopies of stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Kate&#8217;s desk.<\/li>\n<li>My desktop (let&#8217;s be honest: gaming) computer.<\/li>\n<li>My dayjob laptop.<\/li>\n<li>My contractor job laptop.<\/li>\n<li>My daughter&#8217;s laptop.<\/li>\n<li>My netbook (on which I do all my first draft writing, pretty much).<\/li>\n<li>A comfy wingback (where said writing takes place).<\/li>\n<li>A big closet with spare computer bits, software, and gaming stuff for both myself and smaller persons.<\/li>\n<li>A small bookshelf with books I really can&#8217;t bear to be a whole floor away from, or which I want to read &#8216;next&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>A baby-gate &#8216;cage&#8217; around said bookshelf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clearly, the space serves many masters, and in order to fight what might seem inevitable clutter-creep, I have to be really vicious about my &#8220;if it doesn&#8217;t apply to the purpose of the space, it goes&#8221; rule. It doesn&#8217;t make the room spartan, by any means, but if you understand everything room has to do, you might concede that at the very least it&#8217;s efficient.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a picture of the whole room, but this is current picture of the desk area:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3416\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my-desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3416\" title=\"my desk\" src=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my-desk-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my-desk-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my-desk-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my-desk-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my-desk.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not pictured: my droid, propped up against the right monitor, so I can use it to check a bunch of phone-related things, and the podcasting microphone, because I'm (sadly) not podcasting anything right now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The only object I don&#8217;t really need on the desk? That would be the stone &#8216;lawn ornament&#8217; frog that you can see center left, holding my soda glass, and given what I went through to acquire the damned thing, I&#8217;m certainly not getting rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t set this picture up: that&#8217;s just how I left it this morning when I walked out the door.<\/p>\n<p>And where did I walk out the door to?<\/p>\n<p>That would be my dayjob work space which, in contrast, serves only one purpose.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3417\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/standing1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/standing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"standing1\" width=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/standing1.jpg 854w, http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/standing1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over a year at my &quot;standing desk&quot; (assembled from two &quot;shoe caddies&quot; from the closet department at Lowes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aside from its purpose (note the sweet, sweet singular), the only other goal I have with this space is to change things up as much as I can from my home space, in terms of physical requirements: I stand rather than sit and use a different style of keyboard and mouse &#8212; all told, I probably spend well over 16 hours on a computer every day of the working week, and doing whatever I can to reduce movement repetition is critical to my continued (relative) health and avoidance of RSI.<\/p>\n<p>What about you guys? I have an unhealthy fascination for seeing pictures of where people do their work and play: got any cool setups link to? Share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a picture of a new chair to Twitter yesterday. \u00a0Alongside the picture, I said: Replaced ten year old home office chair with Something Fancy. Butt approves. Daytime standing desk doesn&#8217;t care. (I know, riveting social media, right?) In addition to the new (incredibly comfy, dangerously reclinable) chair, I removed the small &#8220;ladder&#8221; desk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/workspace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Workspace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-untidy-heap","category-worth-1k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}