One of those things I feel like I need is a new desk. It has gotten to the point that I am considering building my own desk, which will no doubt look very rough and unadorned, and might also be exactly what I want/need, and will almost certainly be cheaper than buying a very large, very complex desk. I simply don't have enough room. I've got to find room for the six surround speakers, two monitors, in-boxes, organizer, guitar/computer interfaces, plus a large enough stretch of extra space that I can spread out books and other things onto. I don't have $500-1000 to spend on the workstation of my dreams, but I might be able to buy raw lumber and build a useful-but-ugly extension onto this desk for $150 or less.
By the same token, I am being seduced by the dream of buying a few hundred feet of audio cables and dozens of connectors, so that when I move into my new place I can wire things to the exact length I need them, bolt things down to the custom-built cabinetry, and have a "perfect" layout. Currently, I have a bunch of 20" cables. I don't need the length, but I don't have hundreds of dollars to replace them, so I am stuck with 200' of instrument cable in a 168 square foot room. When you add it to the computer connections, you wind up with a giant bird's nest of cables. It is a constant bother.
That's the sort of thing I cope with. It is actually sort of nice, because I have gone beyond most of my general "gimme gimme gimme" acquisitional desperation. As an example, I still look at pretty new guitars and fancy amplifiers and such, but I don't feel like it is worth it to get into hock to get ahold of it. At least, not as much as I used to. I still want to make ridiculous purchases for emotional reasons. On the other hand, there's a sense of reason involved now, where I only want new things for the sake of improving the use of the things I already have. I want to buy some things because they will make everything else run more efficiently. I want to buy organizational things, like a new filing cabinet. I feel like I could use a scanner, because the volume of paperwork we're dealing with is overwhelming. On the far end of reason, I want a wireless network connector for my Blu-ray player so that I can access online content for my movies. Maybe someday. Maybe for Xmas.
Anyhoo. I'm not going to spend a ton of money on anything. I can imagine buying a big piece of wood and sticking legs and shelves on it, and making it my new desk. I can even imagine someday buying new cables for all of my crap. It is all "someday" stuff... and it is all stuff that I can live without. Maybe that is the best part, that I am not consumed with the need for "stuff" as much as I have been.
2 comments:
if you are pretty handy, i bet you could make the perfect desk. and if you have time, you could plot, draw and design it and i bet it would end up being EXACTLY what you need. do it!!! i hope you do!
Here's what my dear old dad did years ago. He took the table legs off of some table he found in the dump, and then screwed them onto one side of a nice flat door. It made a huge, solid, table. Provided you have the tools you could easily saw a dumpster desk in half to have drawers, attach the desk halves to the back of a door, and voila! New giant desk!
Plus, that's definitely something that would cost less than $40 to make
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