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Feb 09 2015

How a really old Ironing Board became a Standing Desk

This ironing board had been at my house for just over a year – yes I iron, get over it. I found it at the dump here in Yellowknife like any other piece of junk around my house. I gave it a quick spray with disenfectant and frebreeze and was on my wait to wrinkle free shirt land.

Admittedly I don’t use it as an ironing board very often so this week while getting lost down countless rabbit holes trying to figure out how to eaily build a standup desk I came acorss the ironing board in my laundry room.

So I started taking off the layers.

Seven layers later I was down to the frame. The covers on this ironing board dated back to the 70’s. I kid you not. Look at the photo. Apparently people were just lazy enough to leave the previous cover on. There was a couple iron accidents and what also looked like a murder scene somewhere in the early 90’s. I tried not to dwell.

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Anyways I needed to make the ironing board a little bit taller so that the platform was just below my elbows so it was at the perfect place for typing. After some hammering, twisting and brute force it was at the right height. Although it no longer folds down, but I do have a range of about 20 inches.

I will most likely refinish it, maybe add a nice wooden surface and enforce the legs a little more for stability.

It is working great so far though, I’m typing this on it.

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Written by kylewith · Categorized: Journal · Tagged: desk, standing desk, workspace

Jul 27 2009

Scratch that, Take Two.

Remember that Rough Plan I mentioned about a month ago, well that is completely wrong know. I’m actually leaving Yellowknife at 5am July 28. So this is my last night in Yellowknife for 10 months.

It has been a slice but I need to go explore a little more in order to remember why I live in Yellowknife.

Today I spent the entire day running around town and packing. This morning I finally decided it was probably a good idea to renew my insurance and ragistration so off I went. The insurance was easy, all I had to do was phone TD Trust and have them set it up. Getting the registration for my truck was a little longer process. After making sure I had all the proper papers and information (something a lot of people don’t do) I made my way to the DMV. Unfortunately I didn’t get as lucky as I use to be, there was about 20 people ahead of me. I grabbed my number tab and decided to kill some time by wondering the mall all the while checking the time to make sure I wasn’t too long. Once back at the DMV it was a quick 5 minute wait and I was out of there.

Once home I put my mind on packing. First I washed my truck so it was nice and clean in order to get dirty tomorrow, then I slowly started to strategically pack my desk, bed frame, bed, bins of clothes and other junk.

Finally here we are 10om and everything is packed. Picture will be up in a day or too.

I hope to update here every evening as to where I am and what I am doing so make sure to check back.

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Journal · Tagged: desk, drive, Grande Prairie, Journal, Kyle, Morning, packing, south, tire, travel, trip, truck

Jul 22 2009

Lost in my Mess

Where have you been? Where Huh, because I have been lost in my own mess.

I began packing my room the other day for my move and it is slow going. As I am taking my massive desk I had to clean it out. That is what takes the time. I never know what to throw out and what to keep. Half the stuff in there I haven’t used for over a year. Eventually I got it cleaned out and now I’m in the process of taking it apart to pack.

Seems like every time I need to pack or get rid of stuff the mess just explodes. I go from having lots of floor space to instantly none.

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I go back to work tonight so for the next 5 days so I will have limited time to pack everything. Talk about last minute. I will let you know how it goes.

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Journal · Tagged: desk, floor space, last minute, moving, packing, work

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