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[lederhosen]

I now have a room, a bed, and a desk. Also, I have backed a trailer uphill without causing property damage.

The desk was... interesting. I bought it sight unseen off the work social database because a $40 desk in reasonable condition is not to be sneezed at. It turned out to be one of those "they don't make them like that any more, because the people who made them died of hernias" beasts - great big non-dismantleable heavy thing that would probably work pretty well as an anvil.

It took five of us to wrangle it through the front doorway, up the stairs, around another corner, and through my bedroom door (which involved hoicking it about four feet off the floor and twisting it around there, because there was a balcony in the way). I think when I move out I will leave it there as a gift to the next occupant, and a puzzle to whoever tries to remove it. Looks like it'll be a very serviceable desk, mind you, but I suspect the sellers were glad to find somebody who'd pay for the privilege of hauling it away...

Will set up the bed and do the rest of the moving next week, probably on 'Family And Community Day'.

Meanwhile, work progresses. I'm feeling vaguely idle at the moment, because I've finished my bit of coding, the other people on the project are frantically busy, and I can't do much more on my bit until I have the data they're trying to acquire, so I'm taking the opportunity to do a bit of swotting up and try to add some bells and whistles to my stuff. Might as well keep busy...

Comments

[michiexile]

What? Moving? When you could be watching races?

On that note - have they lifted the quarantine yet? Will they before Family and Community Day?

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I don't think the quarantine is active within Victoria at present (most or all of the EI infections have been in NSW and Qld), although it has affected the field - some of the horses that would've been racing are stuck in NSW, and foreign horse owners aren't eager to send their horses here.

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

? You're in VIC? I thought you were in ACT. I was just going to say I bought a desk in Canberra for about $40 from old parliment house, still have it, the movers said it gave them a hernia too...;0

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I thought you were in ACT.

I am. The ACT Legislative Assembly has decreed next Tuesday to be 'Family And Community Day'...

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

Bugger, we have two of those sorts of desks in our garage gathering dust. I wasn't even able to freecycle them out of here. Could have saved you $40 (tho' not the pain of moving the damn things)

[notasquirrel.livejournal.com]

Might as well keep busy...

wel therz alwaze thee balkonee att yor offis. *pawrub* u havnte dun aneethinge abote thet yit...

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realised how big that desk is. Is it sort of like the craft room desk at our place?

[quatranoctal.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. Well, if you need any help, you know my number :) I've got no plans for "Family and Community" Day, besides going around putting spoken scare quotes around "Family and Community".

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

It's going to be a pretty easy move - the heavy stuff is already there, and the rest... well, I have one of those wheeled storage boxes, and if I haul it up to the top of our driveway and give it a good push, it should get most of the way there.

Whether this is a good idea is another question.

(And I'm not sure I will ever be able to talk about F&CD without some variant on scare quotes...)