Well I have been working my butt off lately, and decided to take the money that I got for all the overtime that I have put in with Animart and buy Sarah a new iBook. 12 inch – 1GHz – 30GB HD – 256 RAM (for now) – Airport Extreme. Since I bought a new 4G 40GB iPod, Sarah also inherited my 3G 15GB iPod. Now you may ask, “Why didn’t you get something nicer then the low-end iBook?” Well Sarah isn’t anywhere near to being a gadget freak or geek as I am. She does bills, surfing, email, and some occasional simple gaming. So this is more than enough machine for her. Plus it looks kinda kewl next to my 12″ PowerBook, and can use the same cases that I have laying around.

This past Saturday we geeked it out by going down to Madison and going to a cafe that had free wireless (Cool Beans – Great Place). We sipped on some drinks, surfed around and played some games against each other. Good times. I was kinda surprised that she suggested it. (I think she was just trying to do something nice for me )

Hopefully she uses the iPod – I know my boss at Animart wants to buy it from me.

This is the first time posting using MarsEdit – cool blogging program for the Mac.

Left Wing-> Mostly a paperwork area. Have a couple swappable drives sitting in the paper organizers. On the shelf is a Panasonic SA-EN7 micro stereo sytem – Radio / CD Player that plays MP3 CDs and an AUX in that I have my Apple 3G iPod connected to. Connected to the iPod is a Griffin Technology iTrip. Dilbert and Dogbert is to the left of the stereo. Under the desk is my new puppy, “Gadget”.

Center -> Where I spend most of my time. Left of the monitor is a Canon LiDE 30. To the left of the PowerBook is my Sony Ericsson T608 – buggy, but I love the thing – mainly because it is the only Bluetooth phone that works where I live and where I travel. My PowerBook: Apple 1.33 GHz 12″ PowerBook G4 w/ 768 MB RAM, 60 GB HD, SuperDrive, Bluetooth, Airport Extreme and Mac OS X 10.3.5. Connected to my PowerBook is an Apple iSight, a 17″ Flat-Screen Samsung CRT, Logitech’s Cordless Navigator Duo, and a set of Altec Lansing 2100 speakers. On the right side of the center section is a Panasonic Multi-Line MultiTalk Handset, my Sony Sony CLIE PEG-UX50, and my wife’s Sony CLIE PEG-TJ25(which she never uses).

Right Wing -> Um, the right side? My home-built Windows box – 1.7 GHz Pentium 4, 768 MB RAM, 20 GB HD, 256MB Geforce 4, 802.11G, and a Sony Superdrive (or whatever PC users call it). Connected to it – 17″ Flat-Screen Sony Trinitron, Microsoft’s Basic Wireless Optical Desktop, an eCam, and a cheap pair of Labtec speakers. Sitting on top of the PC (can’t see) is a portable, USB 2.0 & Firewire, swapable hard drive bay that I use with both my PCs and Macs. Brother MFC-6800 Laser Multi-Function machine. In front of the fax machine is a Sony Handycam DCR-HC40 and a Sony Cybershot DSC-S50. (The pictures were taken with a compact Sony Cybershot U DSC-U30.)

Right/Back-> Eh, whatever. Towards the end of the right wing of my desk is an old Apple Macintosh Performa 5300CD (for watching TV and working w/ old Macintosh software). To the right of the old Mac is an old TV, sitting on top of that is the DSL modem and an Apple Extreme Base Station (I have an Apple Airport Express in the kitchen). Below the desk is an assortment of different bags that I use, a different one depending how many gadgets I am bringing with me. In one of them is a portable Canon i70 printer. On the shelf is a bunch of books, a misc. junk bin, and a Brother HL-5140 laser printer.

Thats about it for my main office.

My other home office has my old Apple 400MHz PowerMac G4 w/ 768MB RAM, DVD, external Sony CD Burner, 3 Internal HDs, Belkin battery backup, Netgear 802.11b wireless-ethernet bridge, 17″ CRT Monitor, HP Deskjet 5550, and some cheap speakers. On her desk sits a Sony CLIE PEG-TJ25.

Maybe I will try to get a pic of my upstairs neighbor’s set up (He has a 12″ PowerBook, Sony CLIE, and a Z-Line desk too)