Dedicated journal readers, I am typing this at you from the comfort of my brand new desk I have spent the evening with my mom struggling to put together. It is so choice.
Peep the setup:
Click the image! You'll want full-size for this one.
I've been on the hunt for a new desk for literally years now. My old desk was a very cheap, very shitty, falling apart particleboard mess—the legs were particleboard, the top was particleboard, and the bottoms of the built-in drawers were like, flimsy sheets of wood. It was my sister's desk, and given how she abuses everything she touches, those drawers had already collapsed in on each other, the fake finish was wearing off the top, and the vinyl was peeled off in spots by the time it got to me. I dutifully stuck with it though, partially out of a lack of money but also partially because I don't like to replace things until they're literally unusable.
That said, the big reason I wanted to upgrade was because I needed a desk that could handle two PCs. The eMachines Box needed its own setup so I could use it at the same time as my main PC (currently an iMac, probably also getting upgraded in the next year or two), so not just any desk would do. I saw this one on the floor at my new job, and my heart was pretty immediately set on it. I mean, it looks phenomenal, it has built-in outlets and USB ports for charging stuff, the legs are much slimmer metal ones as opposed to full particleboard pieces, so I can clean around them very easily, and, oh yeah—it's an L-shaped desk. Those are cool anyways, let alone handling two PCs no problem at all.
It's normally a $290 desk, but I was able to get it for $235 thanks to my employee discount (and mandatory rewards account, thus giving me another discount on furniture). Our mild incompetence and impatience meant it definitely didn't go together perfectly—the angles are a bit wonky on the legs, though it's definitely sturdy as far as what I'm putting on it goes. Could not be more excited to get the eMachines Box back up and running; I'm using the eMachines keyboard it came with now, and I'm gonna get a temporary USB mouse from work tomorrow to complete the setup. Getting a new desk so I could set it up was phase one in its new life, and phase two will be accruing the parts for a build upgrade late this year into next year, most likely. So excited. The life really is full-screen Windows XP gaming on one computer and listening to YouTube videos on the other.
(Oh, and in closing: this did come with a little side stand and drawer unit, but I still need to clean up my room, so it's not in the shot here. That one, I'll stash our router and stuff on, most likely. Currently, they're on the floor, as I still need to clean up my room. Too busy using my new desk.)
