Technology/Desks, (sdf.org), 02/07/2019
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My health informed me that I need a standing desk, at least 
some of the time. I thought about it and responded, "I'll 
get one from Amazon." 

"That will be fine, I'll help you." my health respectfully 
replied. Together we searched for the right desk. One huge 
issue with the search is the tiny amount of space that I 
have availble.

"Let's get one that goes on top of your current desk," my 
health suggested. We looked around, and realized that my 
current desk is tiny, to fit in my tiny space- I use tiny 
in the United-Statian sense here, I honestly have plenty of 
space for my *needs*, just not for gargantuan 'merican 
furniture.

"What about this folding laptop-stand gizmo?" I proffered.

"I don't know, let's look at the reviews." Thankfully, my 
health is quite fastidious. The reviews were mixed. The 
customer-posted pictures and videos were not impressive. It 
may not suit our needs.

"Let's skip it." I proposed. "But, you said we'd get 
something from Amazon!" my health protested in a fit, 
obviously feeling that its needs were about to be shelved.
I considered my health's feelings for a few moments, as well 
as my promise (my health always views the words "I will" or 
even "I'll" as a promise) to get something from Amazon, and 
came up with a solution.

"Wait here," I said. I left my health in my bedroom-office 
and went out to the garage. Blocking most of the garage door 
is a stack of cardboard boxes waiting to be recycled. 
Looking at the pile, I was glad I left my health behind, 
otherwise my health would have chided me about how breaking 
down and moving all those boxes might be good for it.

I rummaged about and selected two Amazon boxes of matching 
size. Withdrawing to the house, I sought out a roll of 
packing tape, fixed the boxes up and secured them together, 
then returned to my desk where my health was patiently 
waiting.

"Here you go, a standing desk from Amazon."

I unplugged the laptop and set it aside while I positioned 
the boxes. My health looked on the proceedings with an air 
of dubiety, but said nothing til I was through.

"So, that's it then?" it questioned, suspiciously.

"Sure. It meets all of the requirements, and we didn't even 
have to wait for shipping! And, as a bonus, I *reduced* the 
pile in the garage, rather than adding to it!"

My health gave me a knowing look at my mention of the pile 
in the garage, but let it slide in light of finishing our 
current conversation.

"Ok, fine, let's try it out."

And here we are, trying it out together. It's not bad, for a 
free cardboard desk. the height is, surprisingly, spot on. 
The width is a little short of covering the base of the 
laptop, but that might be a good thing for the vents that 
are on the left-side/bottom. There is nowhere for my mouse, 
but I bet I could fashion something if the trackpad fails 
me. My external hdd has to sit in an odd spot as well, but 
it's working and doesn't seem too much at-risk.

I'd give it four stars. My health said, "we'll see."

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An aside:

Ok, so now user snowcrash[1] AND user xiled[2] are doing the 
cool mood thing in their gopher header. Xiled has the 
awesome note about the machine they wrote on, things they 
see and hear, etc. It really makes me want to spruce up my 
header!

gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/snowcrash/phlog
gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/