Friday, September 28, 2012

One of my computer desks = a work in progress.


When one of my fellow apartment-dwellers around here put this down beside the big blue bins a few weeks ago, it seemed too useful to just see it tossed out, so I 'rescued' it. At that time, there were castors underneath it, handy for the moving back into the elevator and up to my place, but rather superfluous once it was parked on the carpet. Carpets and furniture castors are not friends, no matter what we're told at furniture stores about optional larger castors for use
on carpets. They all settle into the carpet as soon as they are parked on it, and 
if you have a heavy office-style chair, with the biggest and best optional castors,
it almost has to be jacked up and moved bodily to get it rolling again. And the poor old carpet where it sat looks like a battlefield after the bombing....

This cute little computer desk had a hutch of sorts built on top at the back of the desktop, but for my purposes, that would have only served to block my view of the other desk and other computer, so I removed all that, saving the larger bits
for future projects like this today, adding that little extra slab of desktop on the left side, using one of those uprights from the hutch part. 

Digressing a moment, (may I?) if you like canned chili, but find most of it just a wee bit too firey for your taste, you have two choices: ask Uncle Ron for his secret recipe handed down in the family since before those cadets at the Citadel in Charleston fired the first shots in the Civil War aimed at a merchant ship, bringing supplies to the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter in January of 1861 -
Or, you could 'wing it' like I do by diluting the firey chili with a liberal ( not Republican) splash of whole milk, from complete and happy cows, and then sprinkle into that a measure or two of dehydrated potato flakes - the kind that 
we 'speed chefs' use for instant mashed potatoes - and lastly add a big gob of 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter', and give it two and a half minutes in a 1200-watt microwave in a suitable dish which won't melt, fight back, or explode in those
radar beams flying around in there. I like to use the 1-quart Pyrex measuring cup, and put a disposable paper plate over top as a lid, because there may be 
a couple of minor eruptions while it heats, and we don't want to wash the oven every time we have a snack, do we?

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