Did a quick favor for a friend of mine, and stopped at Goodwill on the way home, and found not only an awesome little recipe box shaped like an heirloom chest, not even just a darling little wicker chair just the right size for an MSD, but a
fantastic, sturdy desk to replace my falling-apart-torn-up-dented-beat-to-all-high-heaven old one, for only forty bucks!
My new corner of happiness
Incidentally, the old desk
literally collapsed on the way out the front door to the curb. It lost a shelf in the front hall, and then fell all to pieces on my front step... even threw the second shelf under my friend's truck.