Dec 22, 2009
Ten-Word Tuesday. The Unwritten Posts.
There’s something about the promise of a new calendar year that gets Bossy in the mood to clear the many files from her computer’s desktop. There’s also something about staying up too late drinking red wine that forces Bossy to ditch her previous idea for Ten-Word Tuesday and come up with a post that doesn’t require Bossy to be firing with all four cylinders. Five cylinders? Firing on cylinders? Anyway.
Bossy understands this habit of keeping too many files on a desktop annoys some people, and Bossy’s husband we’re looking at you. But Bossy finds her desktop is the best place to store her post ideas because it’s impossible to ignore these files when they stare at you all day. And when Bossy says it’s impossible to ignore these files, she means she ignores them for years on end. Shall we begin?
The above picture represents the post Bossy didn’t write about Swedish interiors and how Bossy covets them. Bossy thinks it may be the light random-width floors. That and perhaps the simple pairing of furniture, the black and white framed photography, the modern dining chairs, the cheap trestle table, the white sofa, the vase of flowers, the reading lamp, the votives, the antique hall table, the visible electrical cords, the hanging plant, and the sheepskin throw blankets. And the X-looking thingie on the wall.
Next we have this:
He’s Jimmy Wales, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, and his photo represents the post Bossy didn’t write about the new donate button on all of the Wikipedia pages, along with a personal appeal from Jimmy Wales, who helpfully suggests the donation amount of $250 but is also nice enough to include a $35 button for Bossy to ignore.
Next up is this:
It’s one of Google’s holiday logos, and represents the post Bossy didn’t write about how Google was mocking Bossy with its island imagery when Bossy herself was caught in the middle of a snowstorm.
Speaking of cars, next we have this:
It is a 1977 Honda Civic, and it represents the post Bossy didn’t write about her first car. And while on the subject of Honda Civics built slightly after dinosaurs roamed the earth, aging Bossy adores how the above photo of the Honda appears to be taken a few years before the invention of photography.
Next up we have… oh never mind. Bossy has exhausted herself with all of this material she didn’t write. Bossy can sum up all of her ideas, kept in files scattered across her computer desktop, in this way: Sure seemed like a darn good idea at the time.
Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you tell Bossy about some of the files you avoid on your computer’s desktop?
And be sure to check back later today for the most avoided file comments on the web.
If you missed the last Ten-Word challenge, click here to read about the interesting neighbors Bossy’s council has had over the years, described in ten words, of course.
And thanks to everyone who entered Bossy’s coffee giveaway. Bossy will send the five winners emails. Thanks, as always, for playing along.
Seeing how we did with our 2009 budget. Not good.
Bossy’s ignoring the file containing a book idea. Ho hum.
Bossy’s ignoring the file filled with new Bossy shirt logos.
Bossy’s ignoring the file containing a new business idea. Shoot.
Bossy ignores the photo file. How should she store them?
Bossy ignores the file containing a new website idea. Darn.
I ignore the Do Today! file. I mean really.. Today?
Ummmmmmmm.
The To-Do List?
BH
first I had to rush to see if I had a desktop…well ya, I do, and almost all the stuff that’s on there has been left by Bossy Jr.
and then I saw that BH had posted something just before me and I was thinking ya, I can shorten my name to BM. So now I’m going back to desktop to make a “get a life” file.
When your desktops organized, you can get crackin on SHIRTS!
Microsoft Money….do not want to balance the ol’ checkbook anytime soon….
The nice, neat, also alliterative, downloaded daily docket life planner.
And, especially, the first line which reads “What’s For Dinner?”
What does one put in ‘New Folder’ icon on desktop?
–>Random folder which holds all the files I can’t delete yet.
http://www.WebSavyMom.com
Many files demand many folders: I use my Mac wrong.
-or-
Messy desktop, creative mind. Or so I always tell myself.
I’m in your husband’s camp. Just one folder containing sub-folders.
The sewing project files that I download and ignore repeatedly.
Miss Spoken ignores the novella outline and To Do 2008
Jamie ignores the “debt” spreadsheet. (And the debt itself.) Ahem.
Big fat folder containing 28 folders of fotos to file.
Folders? What folders? How do I make this ten words…
I’ll never have Swedish interiors: packrat married to a packrat.
sigh.
Gleaming Swedish photo taken in summer: pitch dark there midwinter.
sorry! so off-topic. loved Swedish photo more than official assignment.
Those scary “anti-spyware files — leave those for my husband.
‘Desktopstuff’: the folder where I hide everything before discarding/filing.
Right now I’m ignoring the lower body sculptor exercise program.
No files on desktop. Victoria hides files and feels better.
Ignoring the “today” file, where everything’s dated September 8th. (2009??)
Untitled folder holding forgotten stuff seeming so interesting when downloaded.
Bossy! My first car was a 1977 Honda Civic, too.!
[sorry, nothing to do with ignored files. I just had to get that out.]
No unused files might explain the lack of brilliant posts.
cat photos, jewelry project photos, people photos, and some recipes
What IS a file? Husband does virtual housekeeping. Man’s work!
Oh, my pictures? He doesn’t touch.those. (Neither do I.)
On line dating web pics. I was cute back then!
my wedding guest list, still there four years gone by.
Ooh! A blog post about first cars. Genious idea. Thanks!
Blame Bossy’s hangover for this uninspiring challenge. Sorry dear busy council.
1. The desktop files I avoid like plague are called bills.
2. These desktop files are on my desk but not filed.
3. Bossy can’t decide on a husband? It’s a Christmas miracle.
4. Where miracle equals there is no husband Bossy doesn’t like.
5. For what it’s worth, I think Jimmy has husband potential.
Also thinking Jimmy has potential as a husband. For me
I had a 1979 Honda Civic. My first car and how I loved her.
Of 9 icons, I use just 3: email, firefox, itunes.
best emails from old friends, undeletable, no time to reread.
Children’s short stories a friend wrote, supposed to illustrate. When?
New year’s resolutions for 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, oh well…
The one called Stuff. Also, the other one called Stuff.
lets see…it would be easier to count the folders I don’t ignore than the ones I do:
requestproxy: the folder full of scripts that have to be modified so that listeners can request music on the station.
logfiles: all those log reports from the server that need to be parsed for clients.
can you tell I really need a vacation?
This is my husband’s computer. Icons are for guitar videos.
old version of client welcome letter that should be updated.
Yeah, that’s been a “to-do” for 2 years…..
Honky Cat would look good in the all-white room
I have a folder called “Quick Downloads”. Nothing in it.
I avoid the “beauty of a failed marriage” icon on my desktop. Although I suspect it is a paper my son wrote for an English Lit class, I always worry it’s a paper (for a psychology class he failed to tell me he took) about his parent’s marriage, A paper everyone in class read. And then judged us in the harsh light of 20 year old maturity.
Now that he has graduated college and moved out, I keep thinking I should delete it. But I am drawn to it and afraid… The possibilities are so much more intriguing than the reality I would likely find within.
My husband doesn’t even notice it.
To Do
Files to backup
Don’t Waste Time on Facebook
“p.j.’s side of the bed”: my e-mails courtesy of husband.
Try to ignore Snood icon. Resistance is futile! Must play…
Caleal’s computer is zen. Not an icon to be found.
Don’t avoid them. Wrap them around me like blanket.
CS ignores the Ten word Challenge to say, CS’ first car : ‘77 Honda Civic, sans brakes: flintstones car! love you, bossy.
Only 14 files there, the other 49 are just links.
Desktop looks pristine, but do not open iPhoto …jumbled mess!
Folder labeled “desktop” containing files from desktop dating to 2001.
Ignoring everything. Maternity Leave. It’s over too quickly.
forget the files… Galiene wants Jimmy Wales for her new husband. snooze, you loose, Bossy!