On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 9:35:44 PM UTC-6, Don Y wrote:
Hi Frank,

On 2/22/2016 5:39 PM, Frank wrote:

Certain things I quit doing because of arthritis and poorer vision.
Climbing on the roof is one and another doing extensive plumbing under the sink
or the like. Put a new cabin air filter in my car last year and having to find
the 10 or so screws to get out the glove compartment and crawling under the
dash to remove the filter, I almost could not do whereas I had done it several
times in the past.

My office is set up as three "tables" in a large "U" shape.
All of my computers are located *under* the tables (on the
floor) with monitors, keyboards, mice and other I/O devices
cluttering the top.

This is great -- cuz it gives me that much more surface to
use for these devices, books, note pads, etc.

However, with each passing year, I find it harder to service
the machines! The machines are about 3 feet from anything that
connects to them (because the table is about 3 feet off the
floor!). So, there's not a lot of slack in the cords that
run up to the top of the table!

As a result, I can't really pull the machines out (forward) to
work on them -- the cables effectively lock them in place.
And, to get at the connections on the back of each means crawling
UNDER the tables and poking around behind them (without moving them).

Of course, that means crawling OVER any other equipment that
is located alongside! (other computers, printers, UPS's, etc.)

I don't think about any of this -- UNTIL I'm halfway under the
table wondering why my body no longer "bends that way"! :

Wish I had all this home repair knowledge when I was younger and could have
used it.

I never put desktop computers on the floor anymore because the darn things act like vacuum cleaners and suck up a lot of dirt. The closest I come to putting a mini tower on the floor is to set it on top of a plastic milk crate. At home, my desktop computers are on the table and I can pull the release handle on top and tilt out the side panel to reach everything. The hard drives are in caddies and slide straight out of the open side. I did have a full tower on wheels at one time in which I installed air filters that I cleaned on a regular basis. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Dust Monster