Desk revamp

Almost 20 years ago, when I first moved out from my parents' house, I had to go get a bunch of furniture. One of those items was a corner computer desk, with an extendible keyboard tray and a couple shelves up above to store things. I bought that desk and it came with me to my new apartment, sitting in the corner, and then we moved to Japan. My parents kept the desk for three years while I sat on the floor under a kotatsu and developed a taste for sitting on the floor. But it's basically impossible to get a floor desk in America, so when we moved back I went back to my old desk even as we had a shikibuton to sleep on and a low, chabudai-style table to eat dinner at. But I never stopped wanting to sit on the floor, and I never stopped trying to find a way to get a floor desk. Shipping one here would have been prohibitively expensive--I checked the reshipper sites and they were all like "The desk costs ¥35,000 and then shipping it to America costs ¥45,000" so of course I didn't go with that option.

But, recently my father mentioned that in his workshop he had an angle grinder and if I asked, would be willing to grind some angles for me. With that knowledge, I bought a simple desk on Wayfair, gave him the legs and the appropriate measurements, took the legs back with thanks when he was done, and bought a few more things to assemble my floor desk and behold:

Small bookshelf tucked on its side below for extra storage in the part of the L I don't sit in. There's no room for a dual clip-on slide-in keyboard tray assembly--most of them require 33 inches and I only have 27 inches of usable space--so I got a single-point swivel one that can turn around and fold under the desk, and then tuck the floor chair in after it. There's another storage area under the meeting point of the L, where in a full-sized desk you could put the computer tower, but I stuck that behind the two monitors with the fans facing behind the monitors, against the windows (where it should be cooler most of the time). Down below are copies of my alumni magazine that I need to read, the dango daikazoku from Clannad, a Vash the Stampede plush I got from...somewhere, and a few odds and ends. The stuffed animals and souvenirs (a myrtlewood carved seal from Oregon, a statue of the merlion from Singapore, the bells I had on my walking stick when I climbed Mt. Fuji) are on two little shelves I got, though Laila often comes over and steals the amiibo that are visible there. The two foxes were made by redpikachu and the slime and Neko Atsume cat are both from crane games in Japan. The speakers are basic Pebble speakers from Amazon, because my old speakers broke when I was moving everything around between my two desks. The sound is only okay, but most of the time I have my headphones in anyway if I'm doing anything that actually has sound. That's the one part of the setup I'm still waiting for--a hook to attach to the back of the monitor to use as a headphone hook.

I didn't put the Kirby stickers on there, but I had Kirby stickers and sashagee thought they needed to go somewhere.

It's really comfortable to sit in! The keyboard was too high until sashagee noticed that it had an adjustable setting, and now I can sit here with my work laptop on the desk and work and then sit here later and work on personal projects without much problem. Sitting on the floor means I fidget a lot, which is good because sitting in one position without moving is what causes most of the sitting-related health problems, and having to get up and down off the ground helps get me a lot of exercise. I finally have my dream computer setup--hopefully I'll never have to replace it, but with a toddler in the house, we'll see.