Went to Walmart on Sunday. So this is news? Well, not for most folks but here in the ‘Kingdom’ going to Walmart means putting aside at least 5 hours of your day. That is if you only plan to shop for one hour since the other four are spent in travel time. So it may not be news but it’s a significant undertaking.

About half the time, on these trips to “civilization”, our visit to Wally World results in a bit of “impulse buying” but nothing in the way of an extravagant nature since the budget is always sneaking up from behind and poking us in tender places, reminding us that frugality is the watch word these days. This time however was different and much to my and my old PC’s advantage I might add.

I now have a new computer desk and a new home for “old reliable”.

You have no idea how much I’m lovin’ this.

My old desk was very much a “make do” type of thing since the space for my setup wasn’t quite wide enough for what you might consider the standard sized computer desk so finding a new one that fit had been rather difficult up till now so I had to deal with a yard sale special. And sometimes, when we did find one that we could shove into the space available, it didn’t quite fit the decor.

But more to the ergonomic point, my old desk had no keyboard tray at all so the keyboard had to sit in front of the monitor on the desktop itself. This tended to make me feel like a child sitting at the dinner table without a high chair in that typing on the keyboard was a rather “elevated” experience. My fingers tended to slide across the keys rather than descending from above as it should be. It also made me feel like I was sitting way too close to the display—which I was.

But that’s all in the past and my eye’s should uncross any day now..

The PC tower is now nicely ensconced behind it’s own door (behind the chair seat in the photo) instead of sitting on the floor under the desk upon which I kept bashing my knee every time I swiveled out of the chair to head to the kitchen for another cup of coffee. This also led to significantly less cussing and groaning on my part.

And finally the surge protector with it’s snake’s nest of various power, phone and Ethernet cables is also off the floor and out from under my feet, safely mounted on the lower back panel of my new desk. It’s still a snake’s nest but at least now it’s a vertical snake’s nest safe from my kicking and shoving feet.

So what’s next for my aging computer?

The new video card and cooling fans should arrive on Thursday. This should bring me up to date to at least 2005 standards anyway.