If you’re like me (and heaven help you if you are… seek professional help immediately), you probably spend a fair amount of your workday staring at a computer screen.
And if you’re like most people, you probably still have some sort of default background on your screen all day.
Why not add a smile or three to all that screen-staring, by personalizing your desktop background. I have double monitors (it looks like “multi-tasking” but really it’s just ADHD) and this morning when I logged on, here’s what I saw:
I have an entire album of desktop background photos, ranging from the profound:
… to the ridiculous:
There are 66 photos in the folder now, and the photos rotate every 30 minutes, so every day is a new grab bag of visuals. Bands and artists I love:
A picture of my childhood home:
Deep thoughts (most courtesy of the brilliant Hugh MacLeod):
Nostalgia:
Sports shots:
Goofy photos of my co-workers:
Goofy shots of me with co-workers too:
It’s just a little something to make me think or make me chuckle, and keep The Man from getting me down. Give it a shot… or give it 66 shots. Here’s how for PCs: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17144/windows-10-change-desktop-background
And here are instructions for a Mac (but if you own a Mac you are an artsy-fartsy person and you probably already have done this): https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/personalize-your-desktop-mchlp3013/mac.
Happy viewing!
d2 — these are awesome and honestly, I expect no less. I wish I could go back to personal screen savers but that doesn’t seem to be embraced in my current culture. So I get it in other ways — my Charley Harper mouse pad (Cardinals, of course) and Maya Angelou quote on wall.
Good to hear from you JK! Yes, your “The Man” is more stringent than most… at least you don’t have to wear a lapel pin. Keep up the non-violent (and artistic) resistance!