Got me a sweet deal today at Guitar Center.  Yeah, I used to really hate that place because it did to little music stores what Home Depot did to the local Hardware store...  But they really have their act together, they carry great products at unbeatable prices and, their cool.  The employees are typically musicians (I've even considered working there on the weekends to get the employee discount and learn about gear). 

Whenever I ask questions, I get genuine interest and they try to steer me to the thing that fits me best. I went to a local Atlanta music store and got such snooty-nose treatment that I wouldn't buy something from them if they were the only place on earth to get it. The owner said, "ametuers shop at those stores (Guitar Center and Mars), we only deal with professional equipment." Then why is it all they have is one canadian line of acoustic guitars and one middle of the road amplifier line? because he's retarded and he's too caught up in not being Guitar Center to realize why Guitar Center grew into what it is, a monster. Still, they've managed not to get pompous.

I got a desk!  I had copied this design and planned to build one of my own (because I just couldn't shell out a grand for a desk).  I never got around to it.  The desk is quite sweet!  As you can see, it is designed to hold the mixing board, studio monitors and computer.  My mixing console is too big and I don't have monitors yet.  I plan to get monitors soon and I have been tossing the idea of trading in my huge Topaz mixing board for a more managable Mackie VLZPro.  Since this desk cost me only 50 smackers, I have some money to spend trading in the board.  The monitors will be partially covered by my mommy for my birthday.  Thanks mom!