Desk with Shelves

I've posted pictures of this desk before but it does tend to, well, evolve in terms of what's on and around it. When we lived in Berkeley we had a very talented friend named Chris who built a lot of furniture for us, including a bed with 'floating' nightstands and this desk. We were, as always, thinking about moving (It took us 45 years to actually DO it) so he designed modular furniture which could be moved and reconfigured easily when Matt's bedroom was converted into my workspace. The desk top rests on the file cabinets and the cubbies for, er, whatever....
I had fun arranging the boxes that make up the bookshelf in a sort of tansu reminiscent arrangement. Because we live in earthquake territory, the boxes are bolted together but easily unbolted. I rearranged them several times after we moved here but they've stayed the same for quite awhile now.

The bed was kind of the opposite story. We brought the bed with us even though the headboard is no longer attached to the wall and the nightstands are no longer hanging. In fact, Chris had to come and detach the headboard and nightstands from the wall which was hundred year old crumbling lath and plaster and virtually disintegrated in the process. He put legs on the nightstands and a back on the headboard and came up and helped us set everything up. He also built the bookshelves and the mantle in our television room. *

We met Chris back in Berkeley when we were looking for somebody to help us take the varnish off the redwood paneling in the living and dining room (more wood) . It was a horrible job which he did cheerfully and well and became a good friend in the process. He is married now and lives with his wife and daughter in Taiwan. 

Quote for the day:
Our position is, we will sue the Trump administration any time he breaks the law, violates the Constitution and hurts the people of California. If he stops breaking the law, we stop suing.
--Rob Bonta, California attorney general

The majority of the cases he has brought are unresolved, but litigation filed by New Your, California and other Democratic states led a judge to block the federal government from freezing all federal grants, $68 billion of which was due to California

122 cases were brought against Trump during his first administration. California won 23 and lost four. The rest were still tied up in courts at the end of the administration.

And therein lies one of the problems in trying to deal with somebody who believes he is above the law and can do whatever he wants. Compared to the reckless pace at which executive orders are signed, people are fired or hunted down and jailed buy ICE, the course of justice is glacially slow.

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