Well, I'm in my new apartment, which is pretty awesome, especially since you can tell that it's really coming together. We've got a couch, bed, TV's, dining room set, etc, already set. The only thing left for me to put together was this red kitchen storage unit. Now, I'm usually really good with IKEA stuff. I mean, how much talent does it take to follow the pictures? However, this one really got me. First, the shelves of the unit are various quadrilaterals: one rectangle, two things that could probably be considered trapezoida, and one thing that might well be a parallelogram. Normally, I just follow the pictures and can deal with this sort of thing, but this time there were two pictures: beginning and end. This must be how the crew of the Enterprise feels; the instructions were, in effect, "make it so." So, I blindly embarked on my task, and soon learned that this would have been a hell of a lot easier with two people than one, as someone needed to hold the initial structure in place, while the other screwed in the shelves. Needless to say, the legs kept falling out, occasionally landing on my head. Eventually I prevailed, and the shelving unit now sits proudly in the corner of my kitchen. Less than three weeks till Marie moves in. I can't wait.
May all your hits be crits,
B
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