Of all the odd things to share...but it's true.  After losing the umpteenth pen to the wiry mess that lives behind my desk, I decided to fetch not only that pen, but all the others that have fallen back there.

I didn't have one of those cool long-armed grabber things, so I used a metal rod that belonged to one of our old desks, and wrapped it with duct tape.  Voila!  McGyver would be proud!  I was able to retrieve 10 pens, a letter opener, a Sharpie marker, a pad of 1"x2" sticky notes, and one or two odd notes.

It doesn't take much to make me happy these days.  Thank God for duct tape!