Then I have to… but then there’s…
So much to do. Prepping the house to move in. That’s one thing. But then there is the start of the school year and the usual, “Uh oh, all those things I tested suddenly decided not to work on the computers when people choose to use them.” The one thing is interfering with the other thing. No, I’m not talking about the computers, I’m talking about my life.
I have a job so I can afford a house. But, I can’t work on the house because I have so much going on at work that I’m worn out when I get home. Today there was a long day at work followed by a short bit of work on the house (with the help of Jim $). It was off to work early to finish configuring servers for the work the lab aides needed to do following the district wide assembly. Then it was trouble shooting and followup e-mailing until I was the last one out of the office at the end of the day.
Then Jim and I swung by the house to move the laundry machine out of the entry way to the Kitchen, and push the fridge to the side a bit too. Why you ask? Well to put the piano in the kitchen of course. No really. I’m having the wood floors in the dining room and the living room refinished. Since the piano can’t go up or down stairs (it’s a very heavy piano) it had to go in the only other room on the floor. Now, the clothes washer is moved too, and will be moving out when I have the chance. I don’t really want a washer in my kitchen.
The next move with the living and dining rooms will be to pull up the old carpet which literally tears with the slightest provocation such as pushing a whopping great upright piano across it. I also have to tear it up on the stairs and in the upstairs hall. And, by tear it up, I of course mean to dance. Which will of course be followed by the removing of the carpet.
But before any tearing commences, it’s another day at work trying to figure out what I thought I already figured out, only now it doesn’t want to behave the way it behaved when I was trying it before. Stupid computers. Stupid carpets.
As Dave would say (I think dave would say; Dave would you say?), I got me a bunch of first world problems.
I’m not sure if I would say that, but I’d sure think it.
BTW: Instead of ‘tearing it up,’ you could also be ‘cutting the rug.’
Har har.
D.
Comment by Dave Kopperman | September 5, 2008