Grounding Idea

Well after much thought of easy ways I could ground myself, I have thought of one good way.

my work place is really close to a window, so I thought maybe if I stuck a metal stake in the ground, attached wire to it, and threaded it through the window. Then I would tie it to my wrist.

would that ground me? and also, I have heard of putting a resistor on the part that goes around my wrist (actually it could go anywhere), but what size resistor?

i would think the larger the resistor the better. all its going to do is slow any current getting grounded so it doesnt spike and fry whatever your working on.

More to the point you don't get fried if you touch something live.
Go to your local electronics place, they will have proper antistatic wrist straps for about $5. Clip the end of it to any exposed metal on an appliance (computers are good) with a 3 pin plug. Or you can directly ground that.
They have a 1 megaohm (1,000,000 ohm) resistor in them.

That would work. The ground is grounded pretty well.

Assuming your building is up to code, you can also get a ground from any electrical socket... either by jamming a wire into the bottom hole of the plug, or by wrapping it around the screw holding the socket in place.

Pictured is an a north american socket, I'm not sure what ground is on foreign sockets, but the screw should at least be grounded.