I can’t believe how fast time passes with kids. My oldest is turning 10 in a couple weeks. Holy crap! Staggering.

We’re shifting stuff around in his room, pulling out the train table and putitng the extension back on the desk I gave him. That would be one of the two desks I used to have in my studio. He gets expanded study space and I have reduced tabletop for rock and rolling.

It’s a good thing I save all this stuff, even if it is way crappier than it used to be. His desk could never support the old school desktop computers we had. Or, God forbid, an electric typewriter. No freakin’ way.

I have this one desk I have tricked out 8 ways from sunday over the years. I’ve attached and removed drawer slides and hutch-like shelves. I’ve drilled holes to snake cables. I’ve attached power strips to the sides. I’ve alternately added risers and removed inches from the legs to allow for varying clearances in different apartments. Now that’s the kind of quality a guy wants in his desk, right?

Incidentally, this latter desk is the one I still have in my studio. It is an “L” style desk that currently supports my hard disk recorder, desktop and widescreen monitor, computer speakers and subwoofer, studio monitor speakers (love my KRKs), a turntable, a dual cassette deck (don’t ask), a lamp, a fan, a phone, and last, but not least, two PA speakers.

Yes, I keep a PA on my desk. What do you have? A laptop?

Wuss.