I awoke early (early enough for a Saturday) to greet the cable guy, who
was scheduled to fix my Internet (see my
rant about Comcast). Whilst
here, the cable man replaced a lot of my internal cabling, which
involved me moving a large cabinet - hosting as my entertainment unit.
Lisa and I had talked about buying some new shelving units from
Ikea
for the family room, to store our stuff and better organize the
entertainment center. So, since I had moved the cabinet I suggested
that we drive down to Ikea and purchase the new furniture.... A few
hours later I had a garage full of cardboard boxes containing self
assembly furniture.
Despite being deathly sick with flu, I spent the later part of
Saturday and best part of Sunday constructing
the new furniture (it's amazing what you can do under the delirium of
drugs), and the results are shown below. The hardest part of
it all was making three trips to Ikea - once to buy the furniture, a
second time (and a second store) to buy parts that were out of stock at
the previous store, and a third time because the glass in one of the
units was shattered when I got it home.
I finished construction about 2am Monday morning.
Ignore the baby gate, it's there to stop a wild 2 year old from rearranging the furniture design.