Geeky Things: A Cubicle Playset for Adults

I know when I am very bored at work, I have always wanted to have a little cubicle playset of my very own to pass the time. In the spirit of Dilbert cartoons and Office Space, "The Cubes - Cubicle Playset" available at ThinkGeek. lets you enter the fantasy land that might be your very own job. Maybe you are not the "Unix" guy, maybe you have always been the "Windows" guy and you've just always wanted to be the "Unix" guy. Well, now you can PRETEND TO BE THAT GUY with your very own Cubicle Playset.

Did-You-Know What Company Filed the Largest Tax Return in History?

It is almost February. Tax documents are arriving in the mail on a daily basis. If you feel overwhelmed by completing your taxes, imagine how it was for General Electric (GE) in 2006. They e-filed a tax return that, if printed, would have been 24,000 pages! According to the Tech Republic, this was the largest tax return ever filed. Talk about overwhelming.

Source: TechRepublic, Geek Trivia: A Tax to Grind

P.S. Can you believe there is a "Geek Trivia" newsletter? Lucky for me!

Structure

I've spent this last year delving into the blogging world a little bit more and seeing how good ones work and organize themselves. I don't expect this one to be a "good one" - I mean it is just for fun for me, it really has no point other than my stream-of-conscious ramblings. My main goal with it right now is to get myself to write more and to write more freely - just in case something useful pops out while I'm not paying attention.

So, in that spirit of getting myself to write more, I think I may add some structure to the site as an experiment. I'm thinking about:

• Know-It-All Mondays - Where I impart unsolicited advice to anyone who happens to stumble by about some random topic that I think I know everything about.
• Did-You-Know Wednesdays- this would just be useless geeky trivial facts that I unearth and propagate
• Geeky Things Fridays - This would be geeky things I've done, heard, or seen that make me smile and appreciate the geekiness in life.

So, I'm going to try this for a month or so and see how it goes.

One More Thing - A Book Thing

This one is in the spirit of life simplification. As I have been trying to find good home for books I am ready to let go of, I came across this organization in Baltimore, MD: A Book Thing. It seems that the main point of their organization is to give books away for free to people who want them. What a great idea! They need book donations, especially children's books. They also need plastic grocery bags - and I'm always looking for a new home for those as well (although I have started using BAGGUs for grocery shopping to cut down on the use of plastic grocery bags).

So Cute.... Had to Share

I came across the followin blog that I had to share for those of you who love working with Yarn. It is called the Mochimo Blog. This is a yarn artist who knits and crochets toys - lots of innovative work I had never seen before.

Also, she has incredible pictures of her MIL's yarn stash which is uunbelievable. As much as I would love to own that yarn - it is totally contrary to my "live simply" mantra for this year.