I've just shoved all the PCs to the other side of the room and vacuumed up about a cat and a half's worth of cat hair and dust. That's the new piece and the legs, ready to attach...
...and with the legs attached. Gotta love those coarse thread coated deck screws. They're handy for just about anything that requires one thing being screwed to another.
Aaaaand it's up and in place. Yippie! Of course, that view won't last because a room divider of sorts is envisioned, mostly to hide all the cables and hooha behind the radios.
The room divider of sorts, of course, turns out to be those four Ikea CD/DVD shelves we picked up a while back.
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suemac decided she didn't like the plain white pressboard backs, so she jazzed 'em up with some polkadot scrapbooking page paper. I'm not entirely sure if I like the 4 units spaced out, or if I want to moosh 'em together and put potted plants on the floor at either end, or if I want to moosh together 5 of them.
Now it's time to get all that mess sorted out and doled out amongst the desktops. Note the bright blue box back there towards the dining room table; that's my shiny new HP w2408h 24" widescreen flat panel. And somewhere over in the wrack and ruin is
suemac's old 2.2GHz AthlonXP, which I'm taking over to replace my somewhat-long-in-the-tooth Athlon 900 which has been my main machine since the summer of 2002. It'll get the video card and at least one of the drives out of the 900, and a squeaky clean new Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)Tomorrow I'll install some cleats along the edges of the two wings, and set the third and final piece of the desk in place. It'll also get a set of legs under it, since it'll have a fair pile of radio gear on it as well.
I'm still trying to decide if I want to reuse those shelves I built to hold the radios. I'm leaning somewhat towards "not", but the jury's still out. I'd like to have a bit of open wall space to hang some pictures of my granddad, and a few of my photos. I've got a string of shots of flowers I've seen around campus that I think would look pretty nice as 8x10s, and some nice train pics (that, come to think of it, are still on Sue's camera.
I als--- uh oh, I'm hearing things go bang and thunk out back; hope it's not the 17m dipole or the VHF yagis coming down in the wind! (*looks out window*) Nope, stuff seems still to be up. Good.
* - because as Pournelle states, "Better is the enemy of good enough."
** - Y'know, I think I just figured out Ubuntu's naming pattern. It's got me to speculating what they'll call the next release... something along the lines of Intrepid Iguana, I suppose.