https://eldar.dreamwidth.org/ Tales of a Trainee American - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 24 May 2009 02:34:23 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios eldar personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/181316/298927 https://eldar.dreamwidth.org/ 91 100 https://eldar.dreamwidth.org/230308.html Sun, 24 May 2009 02:34:23 GMT https://eldar.dreamwidth.org/230308.html In the past two and a bit weeks, I have assembled:<br />1 bed (US king size, UK superking);<br />2 bedside tables;<br />3 chests of drawers;<br />5 bookcases;<br />1 computer desk/workstation*;<br />3 CD/DVD towers**;<br />1 TV stand;<br /><br />That's 16 items in 15 days!<br /><br />I have a long weekend now to recover.<br /><br />* At the first attempt, I discovered that my boxes clearly labelled "1/2" (plus a big [1] sticker) and "2/2" (plus a big [2] sticker) actually had identical contents. This necessitated a trip to Baltimore last Sunday to exchange it. The new boxes were different sizes. No chance of a cock-up there.<br /><br />** With assistance from Alexis, and attempted assistance from Aliza. There is a fourth CD/DVD tower that Alexis assembled on her own.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=eldar&ditemid=230308" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://eldar.dreamwidth.org/230308.html ikea moving exhausted public 0 https://eldar.dreamwidth.org/229764.html Sat, 09 May 2009 01:21:09 GMT https://eldar.dreamwidth.org/229764.html The movers came, took our stuff, then said they didn't want to tackle The Bronx and cross the George Washington Bridge during the day, so would be heading down to Pennsylvania early Saturday morning.<br /><br />There's only one slight issue with this: we had to be here today in order to sign the lease and pick up the keys (they don't do weekend check-ins). So we're back in the Holiday Inn for the night.<br /><br />We're also TV-less (well, okay, we get basic cable so won't be missing <i>House</i> or <i>24</i> or other important-ish stuff) until Wednesday. Worse, we're internet-less until then, unless we can "borrow" wi-fi from an unsuspecting neighbor. This is mainly due to Verizon having a really dumb order verification system that relies on human beings. If they have a computer trying to do human handwriting OCR (and I've seen one in action, even the people demonstrating it said it was only about 80% accurate), then that's possibly even dumber. In the end, the guy I spoke to managed to trace the fax we sent them back via the number it was sent from. So FiOS Guy is coming on Wednesday to hook everything up. Luckily the previous tenants also had the triple play, as the box is already set up in the basement - so it should just be a case of activating the account.<br /><br />Right... and that, as they say, is that.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=eldar&ditemid=229764" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://eldar.dreamwidth.org/229764.html moving verizon exhausted public 1