Since I keep mentioning those desks. Finally dug the pictures out of the camera. These are actually LESS messy now than at this point, when I was still getting things organized. You can see why the before picture was not conducive to productivity, although I actually DID get a fair amount of writing done that way. Note the white printer stand that got placed BEHIND Desk 2 to stack the printers. (And I moved one of those drawer units.)

This is the before. It's amazing I got anything done like this.

The desks are actually cleaner and a bit more organized since these pictures were taken. The bins under Desk 2 are full of audio and data cables, and printing supplies are in the one under Desk 3. The dining room table is ALMOST clean. Still some printing remnants there to sort through.

Hidden behind Desk 3 is the damaged desktop, which I can press into service if I want, possibly on those end tables my Dad built (With the speakers on them). The "Bridge" has been rendered into its component parts on the woodpile in the shop, as was the (not shown) DVD shelf that used to be where 1 and 2 are. Also not shown is the stack of 3 old Macs and 2 old PCs. Still deciding what to do with those. The coffee table is pushed closer to the bookcases, and is still cluttered for now, but getting better. There's an amazing amount of open floorspace now, which will get even better once I do something with the old computers.

And one of the best features is that now no lights are directly reflecting off of the screen.

Originally, My AV setup spanned that whole bay window. Note the CRT TV and PlayStation. Grandma's old armchair and sofa with the decaying rayon fabric are long gone now. You can also see the DVD shelf I mentioned, except back then it was all VHS! Barely visible was a companion that filled the space under the bridge. Those date all the way back to my apartment in Vancouver. (The end tables, coffee table, and the sofa and armchair were given to me when I moved to my first apartment in Herndon VA).

I also built this stand when I first bought a large format Epson printer to go with my first digital camera: The Amazing 1.8 Megapixel Sony Mavica MVC-FD88 (which saved on floppies). The large format UMax scanner on the top eventually seized up, and the replacement had a noisy power supply that resulted in banding across the image. The LaserWriter 12/640 PS would probably still work but it's got a chunk of paper wedged somewhere in the infeed where you can't get it out without some major surgery. The Mac had a second hard drive, a 27 gig IBM that died hard and took all my email from before 2010 and lots of other good stuff with it. The original 4 gig still works. Or I assume so, I haven't powered it up in a year, and that was to try and save everything left to a 32 Gig USB stick (although that doesn't work for anything with a resource fork). There's also a Magneto-Optical drive and a CD-Rom burner. I wonder what ancient treasures I can find on those.

The desk is one I built an even longer time ago. It was one of two wings for a corner desk unit I never finished that would have gone in the den of my old house in Vancouver (WA). It was going to have an edge made of Ash around the sides, that's why it's rabbeted.

The Mac, a PowerPC 8600/300, had RCA video inputs, that's what the VCR was for. I could watch TV while reading Usenet. And yes, that's a modem next to it. It used to have Apple's 850AV monitor, which was a whopping 21", but FLAT, with built in color correction and stereo speakers. It was actually worth repairing once when the power supply went. Once.

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