OH David. I do love this post. I'm a little obbsessional myself, but you knew that already. I find it interesting we have the same mouse. From what I can tell, it's the same color. Go figure. My keyboard is so used the letters are missing. Thankfully all those years teaching keyboarding has made it so that I don't need to see the letters on the keyboards, i get there by feel. I have one of those keyboards that has the big bump in the middle so that my wrists aren't in total pain by the end of the day.

My biggest quirk when it comes ot writing in my office is that I cannot sit with my back to a door. This literally makes me crazy and paranoid, well more crazy and paranoid than usual. When I'm in the zone, I hear nothing, see nothing but the characters and story in my head and my kids have this horrible habit of walking into my office (even when the door is shut) to remind me it's my motherly duty to cook them food or drive them to school or help them with homework or solve their boyfriend/girlfirend problems. I also need to see the window, so I position my ubnoxioulsy large external screen in the direction of the window and tilt my head so i can read what i'm writing while taking peeks at the bunny that lives in my bushes.

Oh, and every spring the dead come back to visit me. This damn bird, every spring, shows up and sits on the bush, then flys into the window and then repeats the motion until it ends up flat on it's back near the bush. Every year. Makes me crazy.