Moving house is one of the most bittersweet events in human life. Stressful and sublime, exhausting and exhilarating, you’re given a world of new possibilities as you discover that your old furniture won’t fit quite how you imagined, you’d completely fantasised about how big the space under the stairs was, and that cute and “quirky” old passageway means you’ll be cutely and “quirkily” parking your sofa in the hallway. Having recently moved house, I’ve got a new dilemma, and it’s a vital, terrifying and life-altering decision: where does my PC go?
It’s not that our new home doesn’t have the space. If anything the problem is that there’s too much space, but the space isn’t where I want the space to be. In our previous home the PC lived in mine and my partner’s bedroom, a place where it could regularly be a nuisance thanks to the wonderfully loud mechanical keyboard, my inability to whisper with a headset on and its penchant of painting rainbow RGB colours on the walls at 2AM. So… it’s not going back in there.
The first suggested space was the kitchen diner. We love this room. It’s light, bright, and probably the place where visitors will come and spend the most time. This was actually where my wife wanted it to go, but if there’s one thing I can think of wanting less on display, it’s my gaming PC. I know I revel in all the silly lights, but I don’t actually want people to know that about me – except you, of course.
There’s also another problem. Having now raised a child that is capable of almost looking after themselves, I discovered that they’d capably claimed the PC desk for their own room during the move. This is allegedly for homework, but seems to mostly be for putting his feet on while playing EA Sports FC. So now
Read more on thesixthaxis.com