{"id":689,"date":"2021-12-19T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T01:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nathanbak.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:59:39","slug":"sheveling-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Another Desk Sheveling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was planning to wait until next National Clean Your Desk Day (10 January 2022), but it had been 16 months since I last did a proper desk &#8220;sheveling&#8221; and I realized it was time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disheveled-e1639964656160-1024x421.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disheveled-e1639964656160-1024x421.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disheveled-e1639964656160-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disheveled-e1639964656160-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disheveled-e1639964656160-1536x631.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disheveled-e1639964656160-2048x841.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/disheveled-e1639964656160-1200x493.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, it was a bit of an adventure and also a trip down memory lane.  Here are some things I found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Weed eater line (now in the shed)<\/li><li>New health, dental, and vision insurance cards (insurance changed with the new job&#8211;cards now in wallet)<\/li><li>Various receipts (now recorded and filed)<\/li><li>Covid vaccination card (I knew it was somewhere on the desk)<\/li><li>Parts of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foldscope.com\/\">microscope<\/a> from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayacademy.org\/\">Saturday Academy<\/a> gala<\/li><li>Two small screwdriver sets<\/li><li>A one year anniversary card from <a href=\"https:\/\/meetcircle.com\/\">Circle<\/a> (card was from April)<\/li><li>26 pages of notes from my previous job<\/li><li>My solution for a <a href=\"https:\/\/mindyourdecisions.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/what-is-the-rectangles-area-dutch-olympiad-question\/\">Mind Your Decisions problem<\/a> (I solved it)<\/li><li>Various swag from <a href=\"https:\/\/gopuff.com\/\">gopuff<\/a> (my new employer) <\/li><li>Instructions for my outdoor grill (a Father&#8217;s day present)<\/li><li>9 guitar picks<\/li><li>Precision knife set (like x-acto) that I couldn&#8217;t find last month<\/li><li>Diagrams, rosters, etc. for the fall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somersetwestsoccer.org\/wp\/\">SWSC<\/a> Microsoccer Jamboree <\/li><li>Plastic Easter egg<\/li><li>Small, wooded treasure chest filled with gold and silver candy<\/li><li>A :(){:|:&amp;};: mug from a friend at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datamachines.io\/\">Data Machines<\/a><\/li><li>Root beer and ginger beer bottle caps<\/li><li>R2D2 Happy Meal toy<\/li><li>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>s and an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESP8266\">ESP8266<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheveled-e1639964853933-1024x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheveled-e1639964853933-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheveled-e1639964853933-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheveled-e1639964853933-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheveled-e1639964853933-1536x641.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheveled-e1639964853933-1200x501.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheveled-e1639964853933.jpg 2029w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For extra credit I updated the printer firmware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning to wait until next National Clean Your Desk Day (10 January 2022), but it had been 16 months since I last did a proper desk &#8220;sheveling&#8221; and I realized it was time. As always, it was a bit of an adventure and also a trip down memory lane. Here are some things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/?p=689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Desk Sheveling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sheveling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}