09.01.06
Just An Experiment…
I’m trying something new with the WordPress software– uploading a pic along with the post. This picture, of course, is my current desk. Not my desktop image– which would be cool– but my desk. I cleaned it off today, a little anyway, but the big reason is to show off the side panels I installed. (EDIT: Didn’t work. Hold on, let me try something else… All right. I’ll have to think of something to make that easier…)
Basically, the keyboard tray on the desk was fine before I’d acquired the positively massive G15. Plus, well, my love affair with specialized button boxes (the Nostromo pad and the Wolf King half-keyboard) meant there just wasn’t enough room. I had intended to install another sliding component, but the fact of the matter is that that would have been even more cramped. My next idea was just to double the width of the tray by creating a fold-out panel to the right. I then noticed that this would cause trouble by not only blocking off the right-hand shelves of the desk more than I eventually did, but the length of wood I brought home would actually require me to move the desk over by another six inches to avoid striking the wall. I was less than thrilled by that prospect, so I figured the next best thing would be to just extend it a little on either side. Now, I have a perfectly-wide control center for my computer. I just need a flat-panel monitor and I’ll be all set. It may not look pretty, but it’s functional. And really, that’s what it’s all about.
The Pikachu is on the desk mostly to creep me out. It doesn’t work, since after about ten seconds of staring into his dead, glazed eyes– eyes which have seen the horror of a thousand worlds; eyes which know the fear latent in the dark hearts of all mankind, a fear which lays in check by a thin framework of delusion and religion in varying degrees according to each wretch– I get this uncontrollable urge to grab him and give him the mother of all hugs. Is it childish? You betcha. Does it make me feel better? Brothers and sisters, you have no idea how much it helps me. In fact, I’m doin’ it right now.
[long, deep, satisfied sigh of complete peace]
Anyway, that’s all for now. With any luck, this will work. Incidentally, things are looking up in regards to the job hunt– but I can’t say why just yet. Needless to say, next week should bring me some good news and possibly a very hard decision to make. Wish me luck, folks.