I’ve been working on this spreadsheet the last couple of weeks, so I did a print screen of it and made it my wallpaper. It may look like it’s a boss-confuser to make it look like I’m working even when I’m not, but it’s actually just a more interesting wallpaper than the standard Windows wallpapers that everyone else has. The whole confusing the boss thing is just an added bonus. I even hid my desktop icons so you really can’t tell it’s the desktop wallpaper.
Also, note the two, ever-present yet ever-changing Mt. Dew cans.
BEFORE:
This past Friday, the boss-man declared the afternoon was time for spring cleaning. Basically, the shop was starting to look like the pits and any and all spare cubicles in the office were getting cluttered with junk from old jobs (and new ones). Therefore, us engineers took it upon ourselves to not only clean our cubicles, but to also do a little optimizing and restructuring. I ended up putting my monitor on the back wall of my cubicle, rather than in the corner where it had been since I started. Also, my home away from home had a metal plate in the corner to place my keyboard and mouse on. I always complained — in my OCD heart of hearts — that you couldn’t have the keyboard centered on the desk in front of the screen so you would have to reach over to one side to type and it would hurt and I haven’t used any punctuation in a long time and I’m wondering if this sentence makes any sense to anyone but me anyway. So, I removed the metal plate. Finally, to wrap up my crib’s renovation, I rearranged all my knick-knacks and organization gizmos. At last, my palace was complete. And to prove it, here’s a grainy, low-res picture taken with my phone. I didn’t notice this before but there’s two Mt. Dew cans in this picture, too. 
See my other post for my note about Mt. Dew cans and my desk.
AFTER:
The other day, the sun was shining, the birds were singing their melodious love-songs, the still-bare trees were swaying in a southerly spring breeze, the world was waiting for me to do something outdoors-y and manly (like grill a steak…on a gas grill…with an apron on), and I was sitting at work staring at my computer screen. The hours droned by and everyone walked with a leaden gait. All was right with the world except work: same-stuff-new-day work.
Then, a ray of hope came shining into the corner of my dusty cubicle. The boss walked by and said he had a new crankshaft for me to model up! After my experience making a 3D model of a ’60’s-era Porsche 911 crankshaft, I was really excited to get to make another one. So, we walked out to the shipping area and found a big, 12-cylinder Ferrari crankshaft in a wooden shipping crate. This crankshaft is from an older Ferrari (but who cares) and the owner pretty much destroyed one of the rod journals. Anyway, I thought I would post some pictures of this crankshaft just because it’s really cool to say that I worked on remaking a Ferrari crankshaft.
