Desk

*NEW* Updated with new pics 25 Mar 2006

This is my desk, and a large portion of my room. I'm in the far corner of it. The bed you can see is a single bed, against the wall. The wall is just long enough for the bed and the door. I have my back in the corner, against the door.

It's cozy :)

And now, for a tour of my room (well, mostly the desk). The desk itself is built from some old, no-longer sold shelving units, a chopped-off door from a wardrobe from when I was in second year of uni (which is how long this desk has been around, in one form or another), a plank, and some scraps of hardboard. It's surprisingly sturdy.

Top shelf is: a dragon candleholder, very cool and gothic, given to me as a leaving present by my landlady; three folders (DVDs, DVDs, Audio CDs); and a few old O'Reilly books. My new ones are all at work, since they get used.

Next shelf down: some radio headphones (they are very woot); some Bueno bars (also woot); a stack of 100 writable CDs; and more O'Reilly and Pratchett books.

Bottom shelf has: a very cool dragon's-claw goblet (another gift from my last landlady); a very cool (or at least, big!) Homer Simpson mug; and three folders of CD-Roms and an empty CD folder.

The desk itself has: some soft drinks; a cool Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical; a power strip with more power blocks in than you can shake a stick at (for the digital camera, mobile phone, beard trimmer, toothbrush, and radio headphones); a backup Microsoft Mouse (not as cool as the logitech one, but nice and solid like MS mice always are: their balls are a lot meatier than most of the competition, too); the laptop; a really cool unbranded mini keyboard-cum-USB-hub because the keyb on my laptop is stuffed; a Fujitsu keyboard; the unbranded monitor, which is probably a bit too big for that monitor holder; and a desk lamp I was given as a going-to-university present by my mum :)

Below the desk is my computer, unremarkable other than that it's the same computer I had in university. Sure, I've changed the cables, and the case, and the motherboard, and the drives, and so on, as the technology has progressed. But she's still the same old Bertha and, though I've changed the plug, still has the same power cable she came with (I'm considering changing it, though: the euro-style connector is getting a bit dodgy).

Under the desk, there's a shelf for cabling, and a shelf for my feet, and another shelf that you can hardly see above that, for misc paperwork.

The bed is a bed (the duvet's meant to be "parchment" colour, but I'm not convinced); the blind's a nice blind, as they go; the radiator's a radiator; and the chair is a cool leatherette thing with wheels and tippy-back action and all that :)

The only item in my room that you can't see in this picture, is the wardrobe, to my (and your) left. It's just a wardrobe, though it has the interesting feature of having been a typo in the argos catalog: They'd called it a "2 Drawer Wardrobe", similarly named to the "2 Drawer Wardrobe" on the same page, and differently named to the "2 Door Wardrobe". I can confirm that Argos' support staff are pants. We discovered, after half-assembling it, that there were no drawers. Their solution: flatpack it again, send it back, and they'd let us buy a different one. Yay whoop. After complaining, they said they would send us a "little something" in thanks for reporting the bug. The little something never arrived. I think I'll keep the wardrobe, and buy a narrow chest of drawers, instead, which should just fit between the wardrobe, and the door, when it's open. Sure, I know I should be boycotting Argos for being crap, but, fuh, life's too short, you know?

Of course,such neatness never lasts. I acquired junk, had to add another couple of layers of shelving... Now, it looks like this...

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I love this image, it's so daunting.

And these two make a great pair to display the true horror :)