My new PC desk was finally delivered today. I was prepared to work from home all day, but the Staples delivery crew showed up at 10:45 this morning and carried the monsterous box with my new desk up the stairs like it was an air mattress. It was in the back bedroom awaiting assembly by 11:00 and I was able to go to work.
![[image: washer-dryer unit happily in place]](http://www.execnet.net/users/alan/blogs/archives/alanskew/washer_dryer.jpg) | This evening my buddy Wade showed up with a stacked washer/dryer unit in the back of his SUV. This was a generous gift from my friend Amy, who had lent it to Wade and his wife when they moved into their new house a few years ago. Wade has since bought standard washer and dryer units, so he had offered this one to me. |
| It took us about an hour and with all the grunting and banging around of the unit's metal sides as we pushed and pulled it up the stairs, my new neighbors might have been thinking that the sounds eminating from the hallway were either the sounds of someone passing kidney stones during a thunderstorm, or two guys moving a washer/dryer unit up a narrow stairwell. Regardless of what they thought was the source of the sounds, they probably did what most reasonable people would do in this situation: lock the doors and double-check the ammunition supply. |
With the unit in place the only remaining furniture I'm waiting for is the couch and chair set I ordered, but that won't arrive for another 5-8 weeks. So, for now, I don't have any more excuses for blowing out of work early or coming in mid-day. Honestly, I'll be glad to be able to put my mind to my new assignments and get something done instead of having to worry about deliveries. Tomorrow night I'll go to Home Depot and buy an exhaust vent hose for the dryer and Saturday I'll start in on the two week backlog of laundry.
