So I have some OCD tendencies which include:
Sorting any kind of colored candy (Skittles, M&Ms etc) into colors and then eating them in a specific order. (David thinks this is hilarious and has been known to buy me these treats so that he can mess up my piles when I'm trying to eat them in order.)
Another, which my co-worker alerted me to the other day, is that i always have at least 5 windows open in my browser and usually a sixth. These windows always house a certain site and must be in order or i find myself getting confused and having to rearrange them. The order is Gmail, facebook, byu, my blog, Pandora, and the sixth is where i site jump. I check my bank account there, ksl, people and whatever else. Yes i am ridiculous! i understand this. In my defence this is only at work. When I'm on the computer at home i usually only use one window. crazy i know.
So now that you all have something to tease me about share your OCD tendencies too! I know we all have some! Ok well enjoy laughing at my ridiculousness for a while.
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I used to do the same thing at work, I'd have my tabs open to the time card, then the customer database, then the ticketing system, then the forums, the wiki, and then a final tab to go to the customer's site if I needed too. when they were out of order i'd get confused, too. :) Frik does the same thing.
Most of my OCD stuff is work related, too. I fold the t-shirts that I wear under my uniform differently than I fold the rest of my t-shirts. The HAVE to be folded that way, and set in the same corner of my dresser drawer every weekend. I've also got a complicated system for keeping track of all my weapons & duty gear that I won't go into here, because it takes a full paragraph to explain.
Guilty as charged. I even run a program called taskbarshuffle so that I can keep my programs in the right order on the taskbar. Then, on top of that, on my second monitor I have 4 windows open at all times which fill the screen and all have to be lined up in their own pixel-perfect locations. It used to be 7 windows but I found a way to combine 4 of them into a single window with some custom coding.
My desktop is a marvel of perfection
Firefox 3 is now out and it has a tab reorder feature - you can change tab order by dragging the tab where you want. I had just finished moving email to the first tab (where it belongs) before I started checking blogs in the second tab.
I wouldn't say that I'm OCD, but a bit of routine sure makes life easier. And candy is better sorted, if you have the time.
Usually, when I'm working on some programming project (most of you can either ignore the rest, or just pretend you know what I'm talking about), I'll have one window up for the program I'm working on, which has multiple tabs for each of the files in the program I'm working on, usually arranged by how they're related. I'll have one or two windows up for compiling and running the program. I'll have a window up for the internet to look up answers to any questions I have, and tabs for email and stuff, and finally, I have a window open to the folder my program files are in. The big thing is, I have to be able to overlap the windows just right so I can click on any of the windows at anytime, which means they all have to have some part visible. Complicated.
Well said... except I prefer to have two separate monitors... (and to continue technobabbling) one for all the program code, and a separate one for the running application. Too often with Windows, the refresh gets triggered and messes up the debugging if the debugger and the application overlap.
well I'm not actually OCD at all about tabs on the computer, but at school I ALWAYS line up the desks so they're in a straight line for my row. also, if I have lots of books or anything, really, in front of me, I arrange them so that they're all straight. or (and this is probably my weirdest one) I always between 3 and 5 shirts, and EVERY night I talk to my friend Sara about what shirt I should wear w/ which undershirts and in what order. haha woo
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