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[rmd]

grrr. got a huuuuge double bookcase at the pandemonium renovation sale. which led to claudia_ and i hefting bookcases around and strapping them in and on my truck as we drove in and out of harvard square. original plan: one double-width one and one single-width one for me, and the same for her.

so huge that it won't fit up the stairs to my house. half an inch narrower and it could. grrrr.

so at the moment the double-width bookcase is sitting around under the carport with another single. if claudia can get her double bookcase up the stairs at her place, then she'll take the other double and i'll take her single. (my single-width bookcase is already up in the kitchen until i figure out where to put it.)

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Re: oh, how FUCKING irritating.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

nope. the bookcase is flat on the side.

and it's nailed together, so i can't just disassemble it.

Re: oh, how FUCKING irritating.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

fuckers fuckers fuckers.

(giggles)

[solarbird]

In the short hallway in the back of the house on the first floor, there's this place about halfway down the hall where someone cut a hole in the ceiling, right up against the wall. I'd never been able to figure out why somebody would cut a hole there. There's no electricity or plumbing or heating to repair anywhere near where they cut.

Later, I was replacing an 8'x4' section of wallboard on that same wall. We were going to have to rotate the new piece into place - we couldn't just lean it up against the studs because there are pipes running along _beneath_ the ceiling (about 7' off the ground) that'd were in the way.

It was right before the top corner of the wallboard rotated cleanly into the hole and right back out - just shy of the edges of the hole - that I realised why somebody had cut it open. And laughed and laughed and laughed.

It's not what I'd have done, but it worked... twice!

Re: (giggles)

[(Anonymous)]

oh my god, that's both hysterical and brilliant.
--rmd