Spent

Okay, it was freakishly hot today. Far too hot for manual labor. So, of course, that was what we did. Started off with a nice round of mowing the lawn and then ripping rotten wood off the garage and nailing up non-rotten wood. Then up to Boston to help technolope and capital_l move from one apartment to another.

Naturally, we encountered the by-now-standard instance of the piece of furniture not fitting in the place. In this case, the piece of furniture was a barrister bookcase from Ethan Allan, and the place was this bitchy, bitchy staircase up to the top floor apartment. This is the price they’re paying for not living underneath kids. We applied all of our not inconsiderable mathematical skills to determine that the damn thing was simply not going to make it up the stairs. Just as we were about to give up, the landlady declared open season on the plaster in the staircase wall. When we were able to gouge an additional 1/2″ of clearance, things worked a little better. We also tore one of the sides clean off their fold out couch. Despite protestations that it was a really old couch, I feel bad about that. I mean, you tear someone’s sofa in half, that’s just not cool. I won’t deny though that it was sort of fun…in a sick, sofa-destroying way.

I have the impression that when capital_l sobers up from her slap-happy state of denial (probably after a good night’s sleep and some serious breakfast), she’s going to be fairly torqued about what happened to her furniture today. It was not a damage-free move.

Have I mentioned that these lovely people own ROCKS. Very stylish and decorative 117lb slabs of sandstone? Good Christ, you think someone is your friend, and then they’re all like “yeah, come help me move my stylish rocks!”

I think that I poured about 1.5 gallons of fluid (gatorade, flavored water, and finally tap water) through my body today. Wow. Betcha my pores are totally clear now. Evan, one of the other friends roped into this moving party was seen at one point to remove his shirt and wring it out, leaving a puddle on the ground. For my part, I took a blissful shower in an attempt to return my core temperature to normal, and then went to a fun little party on the Charles River. Then I drove home and watched the first disk of “Children of Dune,” the 2003 version.

All in all, a decent use of a day.