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I’ve probably just had too much coffee and don’t have any work to do that doesn’t make me want to pry my own eyeballs out with a fork, but I really want to rearrange my office area at home.
When VAIOlet was in the shop I moved my former computer beast over as a stop gap solution and consequently I had to switch tables that I use as a desk to another that doesn’t match my desk/cabinet as well as I’d like even if I do like the table I am using now a bit more (Mission style folding dining table from Target).

Here’s what I need to accommodate:

• Very little space. (natch…)
• 2 laptops (though one is teeny and I do have a KVM switch and a 19″ monitor so that should help) + keyboard + Wacom tablet
• printer/scanner (which means it needs to have topside access-I scan a lot more than I print)
• Various electronics such as my speakers/ipod charger and sync, recharger cables (that I need to reorganize the cords so that I can flip the switch and not have their transformers draw power when not in use-but that is another project in itself)
• little box of odds and ends (adapters etc.)
• room to store computer reference books
• room to store project binders
• room for file box (2 actually-they aren’t huge, but they aren’t pretty either and while I need to get to them once in a while, I don’t want to look at them everyday.)
• room for me
• miscellaneous crap that amuses me to look at.

I think the addition of a set of shelves will do the trick, I just don’t know which table I should match… the larger one (and here’s the shelf ) or the wee one (and here’s the shelf ); each has pros and cons such as how much size I have to make room for it, or how much I want to clear out of the area, not to mention how mis-matched it will look with one vs. the other.

I’m also on a Solio kick. I’m going to see if I can just use the Solio (charged only from the sun I get from windows and the car visor on my way to and from work) to charge my Treo 650, my bluetooth headset and my Nano. I want to get a solar panel to stick in the kitchen window (along with the bewildering calculations that it involves to run things hurts my head. Jeebus, I’d rather read Chanson de Roland in Occitan than think in Amps, Watts and Volts. Its a good thing Tex understands that shite… he’s good for a lot of things.) to run whatever I can off of it. I got a sunny window, might as well exploit it.