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Nov. 1st, 2007 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenI 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...
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...
