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I'm physically tired, but mentally up and going. This is downright unusual for a Monday morning - I think it's due to the moving of stuff yesterday.

We spent the afternoon emptying inannajones's desk, a dresser and about six bookshelves, and then the evening hauling stuff into Dad's car, moving it to Hollybank, and extracting it again, finishing up with a run to olethros' place to fetch his desk. We
were finally done by 23:00 or thereabouuts.

I sort of collapsed after that into a bath, which was just what I needed; I love having a bath again that I can lie down in. The backs of my knees are still complaining a bit from the effort of lifting, but at least it's the knees and not the back.

So now we have furniture. The desk needs reassembling, which will happen this evening. I could reassemble it as it was before, which will require the purchase of some Allen keys, or I can actually leave that part out and have a better desk. I'm not at all sure why that section was in it in the first place - the desk is vast and heavy, and doesn't need it for stability or anything.

Then there are shelves and the dresser to place, which will take up most of this evening, I think. We should be able to fit a couple of bookshelves in the hall, I think, one or two in the sitting room, one in the dining room... one in the bedroom.

There are still a few items of furniture to come - they'll travel on Wednesday or Thursday evening when Dad is up again, and then there're all the books to go in them.

Moving, yay.

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Links of the morning: Irish Kid Invents 600% Faster Browser and American Kid Finds Siamese Toad.

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I'm trying for a zero caffeine day today. So far, so good.

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I'm getting a rather nice chair through work for €69, and it looks like this desk would be a good idea too. I just realised this morning that I have never had a proper desk or chair to spod from at home. Looking forward to it now.

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puritybrown: Your copy of Neverwinter Nights is in our house; olethros has gone swanning off to Amsterdam but has left it there for you.

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Yeah, I know, I'm a regular posting machine today. The weather forecasts here are predicting "bitter cold" (read: it'll go below zero) and wintry weather for the end of the week. Some are even saying such things as "some accumulation of snow". I'll believe it when I see it - but I'd love to see it.

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Bloody Argos employees.

I wanted a desk. One of my co-workers here said that if I went down and got the desk before she goes home at 16:00, she'd bring her car down and pick me and it up, and then I could get a taxi home in the evening.

So I got on the phone to Argos' rather neat reservation system. You can reserve anything in any of the shops, and then go and pick it up - saves wasted trips. I reserved my desk and went down to get it.

Going in the door, I passed three pretty girls in jeans and leather and beads and the other accoutrements of students in the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design (you can recognise them after a few months here). They were carrying a big heavy package, and I held the door open for them.

I headed up to the counter, filled in the wee form, and handed it to the cheerful looking guy there.
"None left," he says.
"No, there's one there - I was on the phone a minute ago."
"Nah, I just the last one to them (pointing at the girls)."
"But I reserved it."
"Yeah, I cancelled that."

The mind boggles.