random thoughts - Day 2,012 (Friday) - assembly required

Pieces of the 3-D furniture puzzle.

On Thursday, a narrow storage unit was found and bought from Amazon. The plan was to shift the dresser over and put the cabinet next to it in the alcove between the two closets. 

The cabinet arrived today, and the afternoon became one of light assembly work. As I tallied the number of home-assembly pieces built by my hands over the years, including three six-foot tall bookcase/shelf units, I decided I might have enough experience to get a job assembling floor display furniture pieces from a box.

The pieces were removed from the box and laid out on the floor. There were dozens of wood/pretend wood pieces and probably close to 100 screws, dowels, and connecting bits, plus tools. Instructions have come a long way since my first assemblies in the last century. Instead of confusing and poorly translated text, there are now detailed illustrations. As long as you can read Arabic numerals and the modern Latin script alphabet, you can probably figure out the instructions. 

Dresser plus cabinet.

The assembly took a couple hours because work expands to fill the time available and I had no other plans. After waking up with a crick in the neck, it was an entire day with neck and shoulder pain. My head turns to the left easily, but not very far to the right. The right trapezius has been screaming all day. The smell of the Icy Hot patch has opened my sinuses and I can taste the smell in the back of my throat. At least working on the three-dimensional wood puzzle let me focus on something else.

The narrow (8-inch wide) cabinet is now installed to the left of the dresser. Inside the compartments are fashion scarves, which were residing in a plastic quilt bag on the bedroom floor since the move. Bit by bit, things are coming along.