Okay, I'm ready and eager to set up my own treadmill desk.  That's where the first snag comes into the picture - I have a treadmill with sloped arms and absolutely no handyman skills.  I can watch someone hammer in a nail but that's about the extent of my carpentry skills.

Refusing to be deterred I spend a whole evening trying to figure out a way to set my keyboard and monitor on the treadmill in a way that won't cause the monitor to fall and shatter into a bunch of tiny little pieces.  I prop boards up every which way and move bookcases for makeshift monitor stands and the end result is ...

It isn't happening.   Either the monitor is too high or too low or the keyboard is too far away.  I feel like Goldilocks in that nothing is "just right."  

I check out images of other people's treadmill desks on the web and realize that:

1) I have to have a desk that's ergonomic.  A lot of people have treadmill desks where they are all hunched over or reaching up to the moon for their keyboard.   My back hurts just looking at some of the pictures.  If I were only at my desk an hour or two a day I wouldn't worry so much about the ergonomic part but I spend more than 12 hours a day at my desk and if I'm not ergonomic my body tells me pretty quickly that it's unhappy; and

2)  A lot of the makeshift desks look really bad.  Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a snob - I couldn't tell you what's in or what's out if someone wrote it on a cue card for me and I'm as penny-pinching as the next guy or gal - but since I work from home and spend so much time at my desk  I like my work environment to look nice and be as open and uncluttered as possible.  I don't want to see a bunch of wires going every which way or spend my whole day enlosed in a makeshift fortress held together by a 2x4, some rubber bands and a roll of duct tape.  Basically, I would like the treadmill desk to at least look halfway decent. 

So, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a treadmill desk ... Sounds easy enough, right?