I bought it at Staples for $60 amazing! And... I'll admit the selection process, the ordering, and the purchasing (With a Visa) was all easy... so yeah... that was easy!
The assembly was another story. First to put a *new* desk in you have to take the old one out. That required a little destruction. I was up to the task so "bang-away" I went demolishing my old desk and cabinet for the new one. After some real chipping and hammering and cutting I had everything from that old desk out. I (of course) vacuumed like a mad meth addict trying to get every crumb of dirt outta there from ages ago when I installed the old desk. Now that it was clean I put the new one in.
When I say "assembly was another story" what I mean is that putting the parts together was labor intensive and the Styrofoam particles drove me nuts. I'll admit that it brought me back to the days when I did this assembly stuff for $8 a day at my old furniture warehousing job. Dang I loved that job... it was fun, backbreaking, and no one was as uptight. Perhaps it was because we were all grunts and worked grunt jobs and PC didn't matter as much as whipp'n three or four dinning tables or coffee stands together in less then a hour... I won't say anymore then... Good times.
Back to the desk.. Getting those screws in the right holes proved to be one hell of a task. In the middle of it I lost the allen-wrench and I had to go find another. It came together though and I felt a certain sense of accomplishment. My personal self told me just then to tell everybody "HEY I JUST ASSEMBLED A COOL DESK COME OUT AND SEE IT!!!" but can't you see the ego in that? No.. the enjoyment this desk brings me is good enough. Everybody will at some point (when they bug me, talk to me, need to borrow something, or hang out) come and see the desk and pass judgement.
Nuff said...
~J out
PS: Here's a pic of it in my room
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