Like last year, I still don't have an office desk so you again get treated to a list of what's on the desk at home.

• seven empty coke cans
• one AcerView 77e monitor
• five HotWheels cars, still in blister pack
• one box from a 'Start Up Tool Kit'
• one cell phone bill, unopened
• one mortgage statement
• about ten pens
• one land-line phone bill
• several door passcards
• one half-empty Dasani bottle
• one completely empty Coke bottle
• one Dell C600 power brick and cable
• two plates
• one 2003 HotWheels collector's guide
• one PetNet statement
• one Cognos support bookmark
• one perl 4 quick-reference book
• one MS-Windows NT 4 Workstation CD (where the hell did that come from?!)
• one recept for a Quizno's lunch from last week
• one roll of electrical tape
• several markers of various sizes and shapes
• one plastic tube that a KrazyGlue stick came in
• one Cybershark sticker thing
• one female-to-female RJ45 connector
• one Battletech aerospace fighter lead miniature
• one Rubic's Rings puzzle
• one razor knife
• one Ferraro Roche candy plastic container
• one Hot Wheels toothbrush
• several post-it notes
• one Telus Important Voice Mail Update
• around 200 Hotwheels blister cards
• one novelty golf ball with my employer's logo on it
• one Palm III hot-sync station
• one Palm III PDA
• one cellphone headset
• one Python Standard Library reference book
• one 2002 gift pocket calendar
• one green colored pencil
• one Keytronic keyboard
• 22 cents in change
• game manuals for Diablo II and Diablo II Expantion
• one Diablo II Ultimate Strategy Guide
• one Matrix Reloaded: The Album CD case (empty)
• several CDR jewel cases
• a couple of unidentified CDRs
• one box from a NetGear FS605 switch
• one HP Deskjet 400 printer
• several sheets of unused printer paper
• one Rogers @Home Acceptable Use Policy, circa May 1999
• one unopened GigaLight 2.0 keyboard light system
• one type-6 Sun Microsystems mouse
• one Logitech cordless, optical mouse
• one Logitech cordless mouse radio base
• one IDE cable
• Povray 3.1g reference manual printed and inserted in a binder
• what looks like a credit card statement

I supposed I could have saved all of us a bunch of time by summing it all up as "lots of junk".

What's interesting to me is that this is the first time that I don't actually have a computer situation so that it is even close to being "on my desk". The P733 I'm using is actually on the floor behind the desk, and all of the computers from last year are down in the basement.