How I Work
A pair of 21-inch monitors dwarf my desk — old monsters, boat anchors. I had to build extra supports into the desk to support them. Both monitors are hooked up to my tower. I’m running XP. Here’s what I have open right now:
- Windows Explorer (4 instances — one window shows a folder named Wells Fargo Sucks)
- Microsoft Word (showing 4 files)
- Microsoft Excel (showing 3 spreadsheets)
- Firefox (two instances, one on each monitor)
- Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 (for audio/video editing)
- Adobe Acrobat Pro (showing a pdf on shading techniques in Photoshop)
- Photoshop (showing a sketch I’m trying to paint)
- Calculator (to help with payroll)
- Internet Explorer (to invoice — the company I work for won’t allow Firefox)
- Notepad (showing a small datafile of passwords/usernames)
In the two instances of Firefox, I have 15 tabs open: Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Tech-CU (a credit union I’m switching to), a tutorial on Photoshop Advanced Concepts, a Google search on “Do I need a business savings account?”, a website on Best Health Plans for Individuals & Families, a website on Free Instant Healthcare Quotes, a Tech-CU subpage on health insurance plans, Netflix (Don’t Look Down is coming next), Health Savings Calculator, BBC News, and Paycycle (to run payroll). Actually, this is only one of my Firefox instances. The other one seems to have crashed.
I wonder why.
P.S. At my side is a laptop running Quickbooks.
