Home Office Upgrades Continue

Since I began largely working from home, I've discovered how inadequate my home office really is. Still, things are improving.
1. I cleaned up a lot of desk space by catching up on filing, sorting and trashing.
2. We warmed it up enough that I no longer suffer frostbite by putting a cheap curtain across the open doorway and adding a portable electric heater.
3. I replaced my old laptop with a vastly smaller netbook which I totally love.
4. The office desperately needs task lighting. The LED lights kent4str purchased from Ikea didn't quite do the job so yesterday we returned them and purchased two 20" flourescent under-shelf lamps which we'll install later.

Today's installment is the addition of a Canon MF4370dn combo fax/laster printer/scanner:

My old cheap inkjet printer just wasn't up to par, my beat-up old fax machine sucked bilge water and I had no quick & easy means of photocopying papers when needed. Best Buy had this combo unit on sale for only $200; I was especially sold on the duplex printing/copying ability and the TCP/IP network port. For extra money, I could have purchased the colour model but I really don't need colour printing ability, however lovely it looks.

Now to re-arrange all of the existing toys in the office to make space for it...

Home Office Upgrades Continue

Since I began largely working from home, I've discovered how inadequate my home office really is. Still, things are improving.
1. I cleaned up a lot of desk space by catching up on filing, sorting and trashing.
2. We warmed it up enough that I no longer suffer frostbite by putting a cheap curtain across the open doorway and adding a portable electric heater.
3. I replaced my old laptop with a vastly smaller netbook which I totally love.
4. The office desperately needs task lighting. The LED lights kent4str purchased from Ikea didn't quite do the job so yesterday we returned them and purchased two 20" flourescent under-shelf lamps which we'll install later.

Today's installment is the addition of a Canon MF4370dn combo fax/laster printer/scanner:

My old cheap inkjet printer just wasn't up to par, my beat-up old fax machine sucked bilge water and I had no quick & easy means of photocopying papers when needed. Best Buy had this combo unit on sale for only $200; I was especially sold on the duplex printing/copying ability and the TCP/IP network port. For extra money, I could have purchased the colour model but I really don't need colour printing ability, however lovely it looks.

Now to re-arrange all of the existing toys in the office to make space for it...