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when not at home [read: at work], how many of us actually surf the web at full screen?

I know that I have to make it about 1/4 of my actual screen, enabling me to block the window the majority of the time from passers by and it is much easier to flip to a more "professional" window.

btw - our exchange server has been down most of the day, so I haven't had access to my calendar or email since before lunch.

and since most of the people who are supposed to be working on things for me are gone - I am struggling (at the moment) to keep myself occupied... more or less.

in any case - I don't think that I have viewed many pages over the past few months in their full glory.

I've had to scroll most pages off screen to hide images or ads or whatever so that any hint of impropriety is masked.

I do not have the luxury of an office or an out of the way desk. The walls of my cube are easily breached as they only stand about five feet high and most of my co-workers are very tall and have no problems looking over my "walls"

for a few years now, I got the alt-tab and the alt-f4 quick manuever down pat. for the most part I have the switch screens without looking suspicious down, but there are a few lapses when I now I was caught. sometimes I try the bold leave-it-open-because-if-you-close-it-it-will-look-more-suspicious-and-you-have-to-take-the-chance-that-they-won't-read-what-is-on-your-screen-so-you-stare-at-their-eyes-to-see-where-they-are-looking-hence-making-them-uncomfortable-so-they-look-away-but-you-hope-your-head-is-blocking-something-anything play - but it all depends on my mood.

paranoia - sucks

so they are moving me into a different apartment.

it doesn't really matter to me, but it's kind of sudden. I found out today and I need to move Friday.

maybe I can scam the TV from old apartment and bring it to my new apartment - eh whatever.

so tonight is my last night at my current apartment, my last roommate had left a few weeks ago and I moved into that bedroom since it had the attached bath - I think what I like the most about not having a roommate (to whom I am not married) is that I can walk around in my underwear without feeling/making someone feel uncomfortable.

I hate moving. not for any sentimental reason, but it's just such a pain in the ass. packing, lifting, moving, lifting, packing.

moving out of a house is a major motivation to never move again... of course, moving into a much nicer house is a motivation to move - so it's all a matter of your point of view.

"A certain point of view?"

"You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."

eh.

don't want to think about it.

so the IT fix it guy, you know - the guy who fixes computers in the office, or gets you more RAM if he thinks you might need it, or sets up your workstation, that guy - he sits in the cube across from me.

it's cool, because we can talk geek talk, new tech, gadgets, whatever.

the problem is when people come looking for him.

at any given time, when he is not at his desk, someone will come calling. The will get to his cube and notice that he is not there, and then they will stare, as if to say,

"where are you now, now that I'm ready..."

and take a step in as if he were hiding or if he would somehow magically appear if they stre long enough. these cubes are about 7'x7', so, really, people should not have to use their peripheral vision to see that no one is in the cube.

anyway, after about three minutes, they will look around and see me looking at them (laughing on the inside) and I'll say something like "you just missed him" or "I don't know" shrug and then turn around and pretend to be busy to avoid any awkward moments...

so it's actually pretty funny, yet highly annoying once it gets past four people over the course of the day.

I think I should put up a sign that says "If J__ isn't at his desk, I don't know where he is."

um.

that's it.