{"id":289,"date":"2014-01-19T18:24:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T23:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2014-02-26T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T21:05:28","slug":"new-home-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/new-home-office\/","title":{"rendered":"New Home Office Setup &#8211; New Mac, Desk, and Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2014 and my home office has been in total disarray for, I think, at least 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>As a reward to myself \/ carrot to convince me to do it, I ordered the following goodies:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A new desk: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stirworks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stir Kinetic Desk<\/a>. \u00a0Mine&#8217;s supposed to come in just a few weeks and I&#8217;m super excited. \u00a0 My current desk is an old dining room table and, while pretty, isn&#8217;t very functional. \u00a0The Kinetic desk can raise to a standing position or lower back to sitting with the touch of a button. \u00a0It has bluetooth and wifi as well as both AC and USB power ports on each of the 2 back corners. \u00a0Super pumped.<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/mac-pro\/\">Mac Pro<\/a>. \u00a03GHz, 8 core, 64GB ram, dual AMD D700, 1TB PCIe SSD.<\/li>\n<li>Newly organized office. \u00a0It&#8217;s been a mess for years and Heather helped me correct that in about 1\/6 the time I thought possible. \u00a0Now it&#8217;s amazing and I love being in it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ok. \u00a0So, I don&#8217;t have the desk yet, so my next post will detail how I&#8217;m setting up my new mac and any updates I&#8217;ve made to that process for my records.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also update my backup strategy stuff &#8211; Drobo, Synology, etc. \u00a0They&#8217;ve got some great stuff out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2014 and my home office has been in total disarray for, I think, at least 2 years. As a reward to myself \/ carrot to convince me to do it, I ordered the following goodies: A new desk: The Stir Kinetic Desk. \u00a0Mine&#8217;s supposed to come in just a few weeks and I&#8217;m super &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/new-home-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Home Office Setup &#8211; New Mac, Desk, and Organization<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ictG-4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":120,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/macbook-1-month-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":0},"title":"MacBook &#8211; 1 month later","author":"john","date":"December 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I've lived with my Mac for about a month now. 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