Here’s a fun discovery.<\/p>\n
Michael just recently started using our desktop computer for gaming, after his gaming laptop aged out of some of the games he likes.<\/p>\n
For more than a decade, I have been the primary \/ only user of the desktop, since there where I do bills, and major photo projects.<\/p>\n
With me so far? <\/p>\n
Good. Now here’s where my OCD comes in.<\/p>\n
On every computer I use, I set up my windows in a specific way. Firefox a specific size and placed here, Excel a specific size and placed here, explorer windows always a specific size and a specific location and cascading. If I need two windows side-by-side to move files, they are temporarily moved and then have to go back to “where they belong.”<\/p>\n
It’s both an ease-of-use thing (I always know where to find things when I have multiple screens) and a comfort thing (it soothes my brain to have things where I expect them to be, and if they are somewhere else, it gives me a little jolt of anxiety).<\/p>\n
Today I figured out that when Michael logs into his profile and resizes and moves explorer windows, it actually changes the size of those windows on my profile.<\/p>\n
This is distressing.<\/p>\n
I know it’s not his fault; neither of us knew this was a windows thing. After all, Windows often inexplicably changes and moves things around. But I just figured out this morning that what he did affected the windows on my profile.<\/p>\n
I told him, and we laughed about it, but still; it’s not fair that things he does in a supposedly benign environment can actually trigger anxiety for me. Why are computers like this, and more aggravatingly, why is my BRAIN like this?<\/p>\n
No answers, just one of those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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