After 6 months of working on a couch in the basement with my laptop either on my lap or on the coffee table in front of me, my wife finally insisted I buy a desk and chair. I guess she was tired of seeing me walk up the stairs at the end of the day looking like Quasimodo.

So I bought them, and I'm sitting here with my back to the wall because I hate sitting with my back to the room staring at a wall all day.

The basement I'm in had water problems in the past. They solved it by pulling up the row of tiles against the wall, sloping the floor slightly down toward the wall, and installing a baseboard with a channel on the back so any water coming in through the walls would run along the baseboard to the sump pump in the corner. Haven't had water since then, so it seems to work.

But that means the chair I'm sitting on keeps rolling away from the desk. The slight unevenness of the concrete usually catches the wheels and as long as I'm not moving around it stays there. But if I turn or stretch there's a good chance I roll back and spend the next couple of minutes trying to reacquire a stable spot.

One of those things you don't notice in the first day or so, but once you do it's all you can think about.

In fact, each of the three spare rooms has a daughter in it.

It hasn't stuck yet.

Currently I'm leaning toward putting a bead of epoxy a couple inches from the wall so the wheels will stop there.