Many of you know that my new 10 ft x 12 ft layout room is actually a multi-purpose room  The room also serves as my work office (I'm still fully employed) so I have to be able to do both work and railroading in the same space.  I am blessed with a work from home job and demonstrate software over the web.  I need little in the way of resources in that I need my laptop computer, a phone, and a small place to write.  I currently have a big conventional desk which will have to go (probably to a charity) so here's what I'll be using:

Often, I sit here in the hotel room with little else to do but watch TV or play on the computer.  I come to the MRH forum and post some idea (usually half-baked, at best) which is on my mind at the moment.  Sometimes it generates some interesting conversation, sometimes it's ignored, and sometimes I learn something really interesting.  More often than not, I come away with some really great ideas that I would never have thought of on my own.

That the reverse running column is overflowing with post full of controversy over the subject matter of the column but the column on such as wonderful thing as the John Allen Centennial which is something that we should all be able to enjoy and appreciate has two whole post, one of them being mine.