Today's been all about the dangly cables.
First, in the interests of tidying up, I molished a magnetic test lead holder:
(Normal people would simply screw such a thing to a convenient wall, but we're not allowed to do that, so I used bastard-strong rare earth magnets to attach it to the server rack. The whole thing can easily be lifted off for access to the computer stuff.)
Observant readers will note that this was fabricated from a Useful Bit Of Wood™. As such, step 0 of the manufacturing process involved sweeping a large pile of leaves out of the way in order to gain access to ye shedde, which is their natural habitat. This necessitated that step 1 was to be the removal of a quantity of leaf chutney from the tread of my shoes. It's like having your own cycle lane.
That done, I set about mounting a 6-way power strip to the underside of barakta's new robotic desk. This was more fiddly than it looked, and involved foul language.
There's now enough slack for the desk to go through its full 'Thunderbirds Are Go!' cycle without unplugging any computer equipment, and for the monitors to be mounted on their swing arm thingy, should the suppliers ever work out a way to mount it to the desk that doesn't involve me getting medieval on the clamp bracket with a drill press.
ETA: Appropriate end fettled onto a spare wall-wart from the box of random power supplies. To replace the wall-wart shown in the photo, which met its demise against the horizontal strut (just out of shot) with some force when barakta experimentally lowered the desk to its minimum height.
I hate wall-warts. I particularly hate it when they're required for the operation of a little-used but sadly necessary anbaric distavox.
