New Furniture! :)

A couple of days ago, someone that lives in our apartment complex (and got us the recommendation) was packing up for a move, and offered us a few pieces of furniture that she did not want to take with her. One of them was a desk that had a very nice looking wood finish on it, and the other two were a matching pair of bookcases that, at first glance, I thought that they merged together to make a changing table. 

So anyway, we go to pick up the furniture in question, and it is interestingly quite heavy, especially considering that all of the pieces do not have anything stored on them at the time. Besides the obvious "holy crap, this stuff weighs a ton!"), my first reaction was something along the lines of a comment on how nice looking it is. Once we get the furniture over to our apartment, either Matt or Emily ask me if I would like to use the desk for my computer instead of the white table that I was using at the time. After studying it for a couple of minutes, and trying to picture how it would look, I accepted the offer and we moved it next to my bed, not exactly facing the window, but instead facing the wall with the smoke alarm. 

To take precautionary measures, I decided to turn off my computer first because I heard once that if you move a computer while it is running, then there is a chance that if the computer is shaken, then the mechanical components of the hard drive will cease to function because of the friction from being shaken. I also unplugged everything from the wall because that way there would not be as much resistance from my electrical outlets, including the USB ports.

All in all, the table is actually the perfect height. I also noticed the horse-shaped drawer knob on the right-hand standalone drawer, and considered it to be a nice touch, even though it did not match the other four knobs on the left. The only caveat is that I have to be careful when adjusting stuff so that I do not scratch the wood finish, which is a perfectly reasonable request.

     

Godfather, there's a horse on my desk! Why?!