I admit to being a bit tired of having the furniture eaten by termites, so I had the god idea--at least I thought it was a good idea--to replace my desk where the computer is with a table with a base made of iron. It might rust, but it would never be eaten by termites.
After the requisite waits and false dates I finally got my base and placed it in my garage and set about to find a place to have the top made.
The carpenter I found, an older guy with eyesight so bad his glasses looked like bottoms of coke bottles, promised the top in a week.
True to form the top was not ready in time and then my car had to go into repair and I had no way of getting th top, when it finally was ready, to my house; schlepping it on the bus was out. A taxi trip too expensive and my one and only neighbor and owner of a truck was strangely reluctant to help out, so there it was, the table top, at the carpenter waiting for my car to be ready. And when it finally was, after endless waiting for parts shipped from the US, I picked up the top and brought it back, triumphantly, to the house where I started the process of painting it only to run out of paint and when I went to the paint store for another can of the same paint,red, that I had started painting with, somewhere there was a misunderstanding, for the paint I was given was lavender. Now I nothing against lavender as a color, but not for my table and and most decidedly not in my house.
So here I am, months later, with an unfinished table top for a desk that is still sitting in the garage and wondering if it really was that important to get a new place for the computer.
And the price keeps going up as the latest idea is to have a filing cabinet as part of the system.
Yeah right.
I do have funny ideas at times.