Organization, or some reasonable facsimile thereof

[unixronin]

At last, we finally have most of our furniture organized, and (after several starts, and with two barrel nuts still missing and needing to be replaced) the futon couch assembled and secured.  The futon couch has to be tied in place due to a rather curious design decision by the manufacturer: there's a detent in the track which enables "latching" it in the fully-flat position to sleep on it, but no matching detent to latch it upright for use as a couch.  Perhaps I'll rectify this oversight myself at some point.

We don't have a heck of a lot of room to get around, but we have places to sit, places to sleep, places to work, and places to eat meals, which is tolerable enough for now.  Later on, perhaps we can get the basement organized enough to put up some workbenches down there, after we make a second trip to NC and retrieve the few remaining items including our gorilla racks -- assuming we're here that long, which we frankly hope we aren't because this place is so cramped.

I still need a new office chair; right now I'm sitting on a salvaged wooden stool (of very shaky construction, and the nails keep backing out) which is about as comfortable as a packing crate, and offers about as much back support.  But that'll probably have to wait a bit.  I may see if I can find the least compressed of the other set of dining chairs from the basement tomorrow (yet more furniture damaged by three years of storage in an open shed in North Carolina) and see if it's usable as a stopgap.  The garbage disposal still needs replacement too, but that'll come off our rent (about the last thing to do so).  Annoyingly, I've mislaid the receipts for about five gallons of the paint we used, and unless I can find them, we're probably going to be unable to claim that expense.  And I still need to fabricate some shelves for the other 19" rack so we can use it as a pantry....

Comments

[sunruner.livejournal.com]

I'm making a trip to NC July 6-10... if there's something you really need, we may be able to get it at least a bit closer to you. Can't be really big tho because we're already picking up a couple of chairs from my parents house to bring back.

K

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what you could bring back except maybe my sewing machines and knitting needles and wooden hinged lid basket. Everything else is large. Breakfast bar table, stools, steam vac, gorilla racks, boxes of hardware (not computer bits), boxes of kimono...

But... if you were planning on going up US 13 instead of I-95 stopping at my Mom's for my refrigerator stuff would be useful. But I can go down there myself next weekend, after the LotR Marathon.

[sunruner.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're going down there next weekend, you'd probably get the stuff from her before you could get it from me.
K

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Actually, the gorilla racks wouldn't take that much space. I don't think any single length of frame is over 4' long; the bulkiest part would be the actual shelves, and we may have to replace those anyway (unfurnished particleboard stored in an open shed for three years...)
There's also plenty of small stuff -- the knife block, the stuff off the shelf in the office that I'm uncertain got emptied, etc.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

True. But there are LOTS of gorilla rack pieces. If we're going to go down to NC and get stuff while I've got July 2-5 off then we should probably see if we can rent a truck now from U-Haul. Or get a trailer hitch on my car and rent a trailer.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I'm ready to make the trip again just yet.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

if ya got a big enough car, go with the trailer. u-hell doesn't charge mileage on trailers.