ðķI rearranged my office and put up a Mac Museum!ðķ After a staff member retired, I was able to rearrange my office, gather up some of our old Macintosh computers along with other vintage Apple devices, and use the green corner where my desk used to be to make a little Mac Museum.
View of the green corner my desk used to be in. I used old aluminum case Mac Pros for the shelf supports. I also ordered a small conference table to fill out the open space in the middle of the office.
I removed a desk and shelves from this corner of my office, put my desk there, and hung photos on the walls.
Orian’s desk. She’s our new data analyst.
A 23-inch Cinema Display from 2000, an Apple AirPort Extreme from 2009, and a PowerBook G3 from 1998.
I searched our storage unit and my infinite shed of doom and came up with various vintage monitors, Macs, and Apple devices
Purple iMac G3 from 1999.
iMac G4 from 2002.
A G4 Mac Mini from 2005, and an aluminum case 23-inch Cinema Display from 2005.
Macintosh SE/30 from 1989 and a PowerBook 1400 from 1996.
2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation iPods, an iPod touch, and an early iPhone. Behind the iPods is a 9.7″ iPad from 2012.
After a long week starting to moving into our new office building, WordPress giving all kinds of trouble again, and getting my second vaccine against covid cooties this morning, I’m feeling like how this poor frost-bitten tulip looks.
Bloody Binding Queen
Timothy Price. Music by Abba
I can’t think of anything better for a Friday night at the end of a long week than a bloody awful parody about our Bloody Binding Queen. At the end of last month, Erma was compiling thousands of pages of final reports for facility condition assessments, punching and assembling them into a whole bunch of binders. She kept getting paper cuts and used up all the bandaids we had in the office. I told her she was a “Bloody Binding Queen!” The light went on. After I got home that night, I found the music for “Dancing Queen” by Abba, wrote the parody lyrics (see the lyrics at the end of the post), learned the song, recorded the parody, and sent it to Erma. She was pleased because that was the first song ever done for her.
Since we have had hard frosts the last few nights our tulips are looking like bloody binding queens all frost-bitten and shriveled up. I finally got the IT Department’s office in order, and I got various cuts and bled in the process. We also got Internet, a new alarm system and new tile in the kitchen, copier room and workroom in the new building. So we’ve made a lot of progress.
Looking into the IT office from the door to the office.
Another sad tulip
Bruce’s desk
A Vulture heard there was a bloody binding queen and started circling overhead.
My desk
Dale’s Peach Tree is blooming
Dede’s desk
Daddy owl watching
Looking out into the open work area where multiple workstations will go from my desk.
Mama Owl peeking
Bloody Binding Queen Lyrics by Timothy Price Music by ABBA
Ooh, you can bind, in the grind Compiling the papers you find Ooh, see the girl, with the punch machine Bleeding the binding queen
Friday night and it’s time to go Look at the papers not that low Where they are piled high in the binders rings Although a vegan might go to a Burger King
Look at the clock and you sigh It’s getting old paper piled high With a final push, you can meet the deadline You’re in the mood to dance But there’s not a chance
You’re a binding queen A paper cut from page seventeen Bloody binding queen Hear the grind of pages shredding Oh, crap
You can bind, in the grind Compiling the pages you find Ooh, see the girl, with the punch machine Bleeding the binding queen
You’re a wheezer, from paper spawn The cuts are burning the bleeding goes on Looking for another plaster anyone will do You’re in the mood to dance
Look at the clock and you sigh It’s getting old paper piled high With a final push, you can meet the deadline You’re in the mood to dance But there’s not a chance
You’re a binding queen A paper cut from page seventeen Bloody binding queen Hear the grind of pages shredding Oh, crap
You can bind, in the grind Compiling the pages you find Ooh, see the girl, with the punch machine Bleeding the binding queen
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