Rabbits and the Office
On Monday afternoon, the new office furniture arrived.
See, Darwin and I became tired of the mismatched desks (mine wood, his glass) and chairs and shelves. To solve the problem, we fought wildly over new furniture at the Ikea store. In the end, we got what we both thought would work. Our new desks would run under the main window in the office, mine in the right corner, his in the left. I would have an L-shaped desk for left-handed people, and Darwin the righthanded would have the mirror image.
Between the pandemic and shipping issues, ordering the stuff took some work, but in the end we got everything. It arrived on Monday, in a dozen-odd flat boxes. It all needed to be assembled. With Allen wrenches.
I didn't have the energy to spare for this and neither did Darwin. But on its web site, Ikea helpfully points out that you can hire someone through the Taskrabbit app to put stuff together. I knew of Taskrabbit, but had never used it. I decided now was a good time to start. After I did some poking around on the app, a lady named Christina agreed to come over on Thursday to work on the furniture. She showed up and set to work.
The job actually took her two evenings, nine hours in all. The office was fully assembled at a cost of around $300, a bargain in our minds! Now we could unpack all those boxes marked OFFICE. It was wonderful to get our home office up and running again, with matched furniture, and even more wonderful that we didn't have to assemble all that ourselves!
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See, Darwin and I became tired of the mismatched desks (mine wood, his glass) and chairs and shelves. To solve the problem, we fought wildly over new furniture at the Ikea store. In the end, we got what we both thought would work. Our new desks would run under the main window in the office, mine in the right corner, his in the left. I would have an L-shaped desk for left-handed people, and Darwin the righthanded would have the mirror image.
Between the pandemic and shipping issues, ordering the stuff took some work, but in the end we got everything. It arrived on Monday, in a dozen-odd flat boxes. It all needed to be assembled. With Allen wrenches.
I didn't have the energy to spare for this and neither did Darwin. But on its web site, Ikea helpfully points out that you can hire someone through the Taskrabbit app to put stuff together. I knew of Taskrabbit, but had never used it. I decided now was a good time to start. After I did some poking around on the app, a lady named Christina agreed to come over on Thursday to work on the furniture. She showed up and set to work.
The job actually took her two evenings, nine hours in all. The office was fully assembled at a cost of around $300, a bargain in our minds! Now we could unpack all those boxes marked OFFICE. It was wonderful to get our home office up and running again, with matched furniture, and even more wonderful that we didn't have to assemble all that ourselves!
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