Here are some pics of my office. This is where I live and breathe when I'm working on my writing. Yes, I do escape from time-to-time to a local coffee shop to get out of the house, but I feel guilty buying a $2 coffee and sitting there for hours. I tend to order two drinks while I'm at the coffee shop just to try and keep them in business. They're a small hole-in-the-wall kind of place, and I hope they stay around. It's a much better environment for writing than the more popular spots in town.

The first picture is how my office looks from the door. You can see my two laptops, my third monitor, my printers and some of the cruft lying about my desk. The papers on the wall above the left-most laptop are my various degrees, certifications and certificates for my current career: computer scientist. That handsome boy on the left-most screen is my son when he was 12 months old.

The second picture is what I see on my left as I sit at my desk. Typical whiteboard and corkboard with too much stuff on the corkboard and not enough on the whiteboard.

The third picture is the top portions of two of my bookshelves. These are laden with fantasy novels and role playing books.

The fourth and final picture is the top two-thirds of my other two shelves. You can see a variety of games at the top, lots of technical books on the right, and a whole slew of writing books on the left. The left-hand side holds part of my science fiction collection mixed in with some fantasy. The hockey stick you see next to the light switch is my game-used stick signed by Peter Forsberg of Colorado Avalanche fame. It's one of my prized possessions and the only non-book item I have with a signature on it.

There you go. My life in a nutshell.