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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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oh, how FUCKING irritating.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

I will assume you've tried all the permutations-through-space exercises and not suggest them.

Re: oh, how FUCKING irritating.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yeah, i mean, laying it *flat* on the stairs, it is still half an inch too high to make it under the porch beam.

Re: oh, how FUCKING irritating.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

well, that pretty much tears it.

Is it just one corner stopping you? Could you sawzall it off?

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

[clauclauclaudia]

When you get all physically active and heft furniture around and get it where you want it, there's satisfaction with the tiredness at the end of the process.

When you don't, there's just grumpiness and tiredness. Bleh.

okay, wtf.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

tiemstamps are still wrong on comments, and i didn't get *any* email notification of that last one (instead of two for most of the previous ones)

grrr.

Re: okay, wtf.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i don't know what's up with the timestamps, but the email problem is because nameservice for the machine that email account is on is hosed. *sigh*

But what happens when...

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

"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."

But then, when she moves in with you in 6 months, you just have to deal with it all again. :)

Re: But what happens when...

[rmd.livejournal.com]

is there a livejournal tag for "giving someone the finger"?

just curious.

Re: But what happens when...

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Hm. That could be fun.
<Ducks>

Re: But what happens when...

[(Anonymous)]

oh damn, its been moved back to be a fall wedding. and here i was picking out summer colors to wear for it.

Re: But what happens when...

[clauclauclaudia]

I know where you live.

Re: But what happens when...

[rmd.livejournal.com]

MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE!

don't make me trip you into the swamp-mud tomorrow, bitch.