Is this your home office or your entertainment room?
If it is, you've got what we call a latent fire hazard, or, in plain English, a fire waiting to happen. Please make sure that your home owner's insurance policy is up to date.
Just because Home Depot sells extension cords and surge protectors does not mean that you have more electricity by simply plugging them in and then plugging everything you have into them. And plugging surge protectors into surge protectors into surge protectors, as this family did, only creates problems rather than solving them.
At the property I was inspecting where I took the above picture, the seller had disclosed that he was having electrical problems in the room where he had his home office and that the circuit breaker tripped quite often. Well, duh. After so many trips, sometimes those circuit breakers fail, and that's when this place will go up like a Texas Aggie Thanksgiving bonfire.
Texas Aggie Bonfire, College Station, Texas
Now go ahead, look behind your desk and see if you've got a wire mess like that in the first picture.
How many extension cords?
Any plugged into other extension cords?
If so, please call an electrician and have him (or her!) install some more outlets and/or circuits for you.
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Shame on me! How'd you know what was behind my desk when you are all the way out in CA and I am all the way over here in Noblesville, Indiana? It is surprising there are not more home fires!