Hello! I'm Jim, and these images represent about one-third of the home setup where I spend most of my time.
I work 90% from home as a Datacenter Engineer, and occasionally I'll open a game or dabble in electronic music. I have been into different aspects of this career and these hobbies for forty years, but only started taking the aesthetics for my workspace, my desk setup, and the decor in the rest of my home environment more seriously a couple years ago. I feel that a functional and comfortable workspace which I visually enjoy existing within has made measurable positive impacts in many other areas of my life.
Unfortunately there aren't any new products from Drop in my newest round of photos here, but I do have a few new DCX keycap sets, a few new desk mats from Drop, and maybe even a couple sets of stabs from Drop which are here waiting for a photo-op =) I will get to everything in time, but this is what I can share today...
The PC in this setup is an...
I lost my dad last year (2023) and have been finding ways to include keepsakes/memories in my workstation. I've dabbled here and there with doing small woodworking projects and attempted a wrist rest from a piece of oak I picked up with him from my great uncles wood shop. I milled it to fit a 60% keyboard as I hadn't decided what keyboard I would be using it on and thought that's where most of my wrist would be in contact even typing on a full keyboard. I gave it a torched/burn appearance as I really was lost in what to do. I found an old shell casing from going hunting with my dad in my hunting pack and decided to imbed it into the end of the wrist rest so it would just have a little difference and a small story behind it as well. I have other things around my workstation from family and friends, but it just feels a little more special having worked on it and adding something small that has a memory for me to it. (Purple was my grandmothers favorite color and I have kinda now...
Bequiet DB700 modded Front/Top and mounting panel for the Ekwb Reservoir
Ryzen 9 5900X
Power Color RX 7900 XTX Ltd
Mountain Keyboard
Artic Nova Pro Wireless Headset
Dell WQHD 32" 165hz