External monitors connect the virtual and the physical world

Sometimes I like to take my MacBook to the dining table and work over there. I’m currently drawing some logo drafts with a physical pencil, so I need more space – and I have these comfy candles set up there. These things are making work post working day feel less work.

But there’s one downside: my external monitor is on the desktop (a physical one, of course). Since I just decided to try out some of my drawings with Illustrator I opened it up and figured out that the Preferences window is sitting on my external monitor (changing Illustrator Workspace won’t move it and I’m currently not into deleting Preferences). So I grabbed my MacBook, walked over to the desktop and connected the external monitor. Then I moved the missing virtual window to my Laptop screen, disconnected the monitor and physically went back to the dining table. Mercifully, I have a monitor at home and didn’t have to drive to the office.

There’s virtually no causality to this posting. I was just staring at my 4 meters afar, switched off screen, felt amused and wanted to share this with you.