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| Door closes with a nice thud. Good job Travis. |
With the exterior guest door frame awaiting final touches from Travis, we turned our attention to the 57 or so cardboard boxes in the garage containing a do-it-yourself kitchenette. The boxes arrived here during three separate movements over the past week. The IKEA delivery system is as byzantine as its floor plan, but so far so good, unbelievably the computers generating our complex order (and talking oh so politely to us on the help line) got it all right.
Our goal this morning was to reduce the garage chaos by assembling some of the pieces and in so doing confirm that we really got it all.
Once you get the hang of it, assembling these products is easy and fast. Some parts literally fit themselves together with a satisfying "click" that says "you got it right, bucko!"
We won't have the kitchen anywhere near complete on this trip, but we've got a couple of base cabinets and a pantry whipped out, and have snapped together seven sturdy drawers that close softly.
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We've reduced the IKEA pile, now we have an appointment with The Cable Guy, if you can call it that… they give themselves a "window" and you just wait during that time and hope he doesn't call at the end of the window (one IKEA third-party driver did this) to say he would be late and would we like to reschedule and waste another day? In California traffic it isn't fair to say anything but, "well, just do your best. If we had TV, I would watch it."
But seeing the cable guy today will be fun, a chance to sweetly get even with an innocent, for the years of frustration and nonsense meted out by his distant and unaccountable monopolist employer. Poor guy. We'll be gentle.
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| Works in progress. Sink unit on left, drawer unit on right, waiting to be moved into position later. |
