3 days until moving day

Posted in movies, moving on May 6th, 2007 by MarkBallew

I am now 52.8% packed. The big challenge today was taking the sofa apart. It comes apart into 4 pieces to fit down the narrow birdcage elevator, but the guy I hired to assemble it last time did some wonky stuff. I’m not a carpenter, but does a bolt really need 8 washers? I think not, and so the sofa took most of the day to take apart.

Today it was hot, so all the SRO dwellers in the TL were laying out on the sidewalk like sausages baking in the sun. Surreal.

To battle the mid-day heat, Jason came by and we watched an air conditioned Spiderman 3 movie. If you are thinking about seeing SM3, save your money. I’ve never watched writing as horrible, or directing as bad. I know moving making is hard, but maybe hollywood should hire some people from the Academy of Art? It would be an improvement.

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The do-nothing day

Posted in bikes, movies, productivity, taxes on February 26th, 2007 by MarkBallew

DerailmentI went to see Breach with Jason as the major event for the day. Yes, I pried him away from work to go see a movie at the Metreon. I would say Breach is easily an 8, a good plot, some suspense, and unexpected plot twists. After the movie I suckered him into moving my heavy TV onto my fancy new Ikea TV stand.

The front room is starting to look pretty good, I still need to do something about the computer rack, and I am looking at bike racks to get my bikes up and out of the way. Either they’ll go in front of the heater or in front of the kitchen window.

I still need to do my taxes. I keep getting derailed, perhaps the weekend after next will be the magical day to do online filing.

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