A Temporary Desk

Friday, August 18, 2006, at 10:01PM

By Eric Richardson

Would you believe Kathy and I have been back and moved into our new apartment for over a week now and I just tonight set up my computer? I really just had nowhere to put it. Now that we're starting to get some things settled into place I cleared out a corner of our second bedroom to use for a workspace. Problem was, I didn't have a desk. What to do?

Why, build a desk of course.

This temporary desk is made out of two tray tables and seven redwood slats that had been used in the bed I built several years ago. I had a couple little pieces of scrapwood lying around from furniture that had been delivered, so I fastened two bottom pieces to keep the slats from sliding apart.

Eventually I'll want something better (and want the tray tables back), but this'll certainly do for now.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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