Matt Mauldin

I’ve been at my current house for a couple of years now, and I spend most of my week working out of my office.  I love working in my office and have it set up just right with everything I want:

• my shelves hold all the cool stuff from college, high school, travels around the world, etc.
• my nice recliner in the corner where I do my reading and catching up on written materials
• the sweet office chair with great lumbar support
• a Starbucks french press coffee caraffe so I don’t have to walk into the kitchen every time I want another mug of coffee
• and my ceiling fan with remote so I can turn the light/fan on and off without moving from my desk.

Here’s where the magic happens.  I try to keep my desk fairly clean and clutter free, but as you can tell from the stacks of paper that I don’t manage this all of the time.

That’s a Seagull guitar in the corner there.  I bought it from a pawn shop for $100 and it plays better than most Taylor or Martin acoustics that I’ve played on.  You can’t see too well, but there’s the box set of Calvin & Hobbes on the top shelf and a chess set carved from marble that I picked up in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The recliner is an original La-z-boy my wife and I bought from her college dorm director.  We had it recovered last year and it is still as comfortable as the day we bought it. Along with some family pics, there’s a European war club on the table.   The top shelf holds my hand-rolled Cuban cigars stored that I picked up in Havana.  They are stored in test tubes to keep them fresh, although I don’t ever plan on smoking them.  You can also see the rubix cube, of which I can solve all but the bottom face.  On the second shelf is my Led Zeppelin box set – the absolute best band ever.  Right next to that, although you can’t see it too well, is my championship belt buckle for the 2001 ACU Intramural Rodeo – I won the bareback competition (go figure).

Even with all of this great stuff, the office seems fairly bland.  Even after the wife and I put up curtains of the same material that my recliner is covered with, it’s a little dull.  Why? Because there’s nothing on the walls.

But I’ve decided to change that.  Stay tuned for the update because this weekend I’m working on a few things to spruce it up.

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