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Well this started out as an email to a friend of mine, because he was the first person who suggested Ubuntu to me, so I wanted to show off my new amazing (random) computer setup.  However, I happened across my old blog this morning and decided that a year and a half was the perfect amount of time between blog posts, as I think any other social media expert would agree.  I also noticed that I have started two separate blog “series” in the past, and never once finished one… so this blog is officially part one… of a one-part series!  So if you’re reading this… then I’ve done it!

Also, I wanted to point out that the banana nut bread on my desk is from an organization called Victory Family Center, that comes around the office once a month selling banana nut bread.  I only point this out because it’s funny to me that on their website, they have a picture of bananas, and bread, showing that together, they equal Changed Lives.  I noticed that they left out the “nut” part of the equation, and they always simply call it “banana bread”… but I like to think that they are like me, and they just like to undersell, and then overperform.

So anyway, the above picture shows my latest random desk arrangement at the office.  It originally came about because my little apple adapter for the second monitor was constantly losing picture quality, and finally just wouldn’t work from time to time.  So I was able to get my old computer working with a free operating system called Ubuntu, and hooked up two monitors and arranged them around the outsides of my iMac, which is running windows.  Are you confused yet?  Some of you aren’t, but I quickly realized that it gets confusing when you’re rolling along and you grab the wrong mouse, or start typing on the wrong keyboard, and then switch both and one is still wrong.  THEN, the white apple keyboard/mouse combo uses bluetooth to connect to the iMac, and the other set uses RF, which is apparently what my wireless headset uses, so whenever I’m listening to anything on either computer, that keyboard and that mouse just start freaking out!  SO, even when I’m using the right keyboard, sometimes it isn’t responding right away, so I THINK I’m using the wrong one, so I switch to the actual wrong one, and… well it’s really not that confusing, but it’s distracting!  PLUS, I try about 30 times a day to drag one of my windows from the iMac to the other monitors because that’s what I’m used to, but obviously I cannot!  So anyway, if anyone knows of a good wireless KVM switch, or some other solution that would solve every problem… let me know!

In any case, it’s cool looking and I feel like I have built a fort out of functioning monitors, but mainly it’s cool looking.  Which, I think we can all agree is the most important thing in life.