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I made a thingy!


Specifically I rebuilt my long suffering desk. New laminate tops, new veneer on the wood surfaces, new upper cabinets, new shelves. also added a triple monitor stand and a heavy duty single monitor stand which will eventually support a larger monitor. Its mostly done now except for the new "above the monitor bridge element that will get built next week. Anyways, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

edit: here's a before picture



Edited, Mar 18th 2013 12:41am by Kaolian

I made fancy food and drank fancy beer. Reaffirming once again that I would never ever want to work in a kitchen no matter how much I enjoy cooking up a fancy meal.

Sounds like the perfect weekend.

I started lurking on zam for the first time in a while.

Possibly Lubiderm is the first poster reincarnate.

The Zombies Are Coming......

I went to see That One Guy. He always puts on a good live performance and Friday's show was no exception. During the encore someone shouted "John Denver" instead of Freebird, and he just sort of went with it and sang Country Road to the tune of Weasel Pot Pie. It was kind of amazing.

Ooo, Mission Control Centre! Kaolian, your desk is clean and prepared to go.
You'll love your plant dedicated light Elinda! First you plant the babies, then you grow the babies, then you eat your babies! I read four books in bed, in between listing over my computer desk. Cold Magic by Kate Elliot was the best of them, the alt world was much much more detailed in its world building than most fantasy books. Finished off with skype that was wonderful for not having voiped for ages with some special friends

Edited, Mar 18th 2013 11:00am by Aripyanfar

I read The Rowan this weekend. I'm sure I've read others from this McCaffrey series, though many many years ago. The story was a more lovey-dovey than I had anticipated.

Specifically I rebuilt my long suffering desk

I like the end result. That said, I can't imagine restoring an industrialist desk like that. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a new one? I mean if we were talking a belle epoch chinoiserie, sure. Very possible I'm missing something, I know nothing about furniture like that offhand.

Suffered a HDD cato, so that was exciting.

The problem with getting a new one was finding something that large, with a layout I like, that is solid enough to support servers and whatnot that get worked on occasionally and has a decent cable path layout. Cost wasn't the issue, it was more finding something comparable. I looked at many, many desks before I decided to just rebuild it. It's a really, really large desk. I like the way my desk layout works, it's pretty much ideal for my needs. Getting into something similar in size, most of my options are either going to be full on cubicle furnature, which is generally going to have the cubicle walls to contend with, something all up custom, which would be about the same cost, or trying to adapt something piecemeil. I did consider going with a fully built in, braced off the wall unit, but in the end I decided I like the ability to move the desk if I need to.

Plus if I were going with something new I still would have added the custom features like the side slide keyboard tray so I can shove the secondary keyboard over for someone else to use, monitor mount arms, the main keyboard tray itself (almost no one makes a 30" wide keyboard tray in an undermount slide out configuration that is worth anything).

That and getting large things home can be problematic, since delivery to ridgefield is hit or miss. And this way I don't have to get rid of the old desk. Ignoring the cabinits ($240), which I would have put in either way, and the monitor mount arms($200 for both), which I would have bought either way for a new desk or the existing one, the whole project ran me about $350, $100 of which was the laminate trim router. $50 of that was the keyboard tray, then $150 for the 2 laminate sheets, $30 worth of veneer, the rest was glue stain and fastners. A similar sized new desk started at around $500 for a cheap one.

I, too, have fallen back into the Minecraft tarp. And I cannot find a "keep your items upon death" mod and its pissing me off. Anyone know a mod that does that?

Thanks, I'll look at that tonight.