December 20, 2023
Waiting for Bureau [sic]
If you've ever seen my setup, well first I'd want to know how the hell you did. But if you've ever seen it, you'd know it started as a sort of TV/Entertainment stand with a strong platform bridging two endtable/cabinets my father built. The platform used to have room for my fairly large CRT TV and my big Jensen speakers. But as Screens have gotten flatter and bigger, the speakers have been pushed off to the sides. My Mac still resides, pretty much unused these days, in the bedroom I designated my Den. That room is dominated by disorganized piles of my comic collection. Cats are not allowed in there, which means they find it irresistible.
My PC used to reside underneath the span, until I realized that made it a stationary Roomba. That was three, maybe 4 PC's ago. Now it's next to one of the speakers.
I used to use my wireless keyboard and mouse from a lap-board while sitting in my recliner. But eventually the Fake PVC Leather declined to the point where I had to put it out of its misery. I would rest the lap board on a TV Tray table when it wasn't it use, and that became my "desk", and the recliner was replaced with a chair from my dining room set. (Another of those chairs lives in the Den in front of the Mac.)
This is, you can imagine, sub-optimal.
I also have a rolling stand with adjustable shelves I made for my large-format inkjet printer that is now in the parts bin. Two printers live on it now. The Epson is only used for its scanner, and the Brother Laser replaces the tiny HP DeskJet that also resides in the parts bin because it never ran right for more than a couple pages after a new set of ink cartridges. The Brother works well enough that it has totally derailed my plans to dissect my old LaserWriter 12/640 and find the inaccessible curl of paper that disabled it.
So this year I resolved to upgrade. I also wanted to move my setup so that it isn't blocking the gas fireplace so I can get that repaired. I've already bought a new office chair that is, honestly, meh, and a chairmat to protect the rug.
And just now, about 12:15, the truck pulled up, and I was unable to bribe the driver into helping get them upstairs into the Living Room, so they're stacked in the garage while I retrieve them piece by piece via the front door, while Max grows increasingly impatient shut in the bathroom. When I placed the order they projected delivery on the 26th, which would have been great and not cost me a vacation day. I would have had four days to clean and prepare.
Turns out cleaning up wasn't THAT bad once I cut up all the boxes for recycling. Max protested, but I saved his two favorite ones. I also moved a couple of dead monitors and my dead Toshiba flatscreen down to the garage for the eventual trip to an eRecycler. One was a 21" Dell with a true flat screen and the bug that chassis had that continually raised the lowest brightness level until it was nearly unusable. Fucker must have been 60 lbs with no good way to handle it. My back hurts just from that. Carrying the parts up didn't help.
As a bonus, I found three missing catnip mice and a ball.
Anyway, I trust my two readers are observant enough to notice my use of the Plural. I ordered not one, not two, but THREE Bush Components 60" x 30" desks. I honestly have no idea how many of these things I built when I was doing furniture assembly for the office stores, but they are simple and strong. There are only four major parts, the desk top, the sides, and the modesty panel. They basically make four sides of a box. Two are going to go against the short wall of the stairwell, and the third is going to fit into the Bay window. The only thing I couldn't find was a nice matching 90° corner piece, so I'm probably going to set up my printer stand there.
I'm really tempted to get going on them now, but my back is telling me that would be a bad idea.
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One desktop was damaged in shipping, but my professional experience and
Bush's good customer service made ordering the replacement trivial,
although it will take a couple of weeks. That will give me enough time
to get the junk off of it. (once I put up photos it will become clear.)
It looks like the corner of the bay window isn't a large enough area to stick the printer stand in, so I'll have to do something else. Hate to have them take up as much of the new desk area as they will. Maybe I'll use it as an audio rack. It's actually been a while since I've fed computer audio into the amp. Maybe I can make a speaker stand to go in that corner.
I'm also gonna give up on the idea of leaving the desks set back from the wall far enough to walk behind them. That's a bit too much floor space to give up for a rare need.
It looks like the corner of the bay window isn't a large enough area to stick the printer stand in, so I'll have to do something else. Hate to have them take up as much of the new desk area as they will. Maybe I'll use it as an audio rack. It's actually been a while since I've fed computer audio into the amp. Maybe I can make a speaker stand to go in that corner.
I'm also gonna give up on the idea of leaving the desks set back from the wall far enough to walk behind them. That's a bit too much floor space to give up for a rare need.
Posted by: Mauser at December 22, 2023 11:12 PM (sZ6tC)
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Solution: The unique design of the printer stand actually lets me put it behind one of the desks if I take the casters off and bring the desk out 4" from the wall, and then the shelves cantilever out over the desktop. I only need one of the four shelves so that I can locate the Epson scanner above the Brother, which will sit on the desk. That also gives me access to the two powerstrips mounted on the uprights for anything I put on that desk as well. And the UPS can sit on the base under the desk to add stability.
Posted by: Mauser at December 23, 2023 02:36 AM (sZ6tC)
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And replacement desk top has arrived intact today, in spite of the shipping company's best efforts, judging by the huge hole in the side of the box.
Posted by: Mauser at January 02, 2024 03:59 PM (sZ6tC)
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