Where did my weekend go?

[mdlbear]

I'm sure I had one around here somewhere, but I seem to have lost it.

Once again spent most of the day shopping, this time with the Younger Daughter, who needs a desk and a few other items, like a mattress pad. Found a great "computer workstation" at Ikea that she fell in love with -- mostly dark wood with some white laminate thrown in. Took her out to lunch, which seemed only fair considering I'd taken her sister out on Saturday.

Unfortunately, when we got the desk home and had it all unpacked it turned out to have been damaged -- apparently one of the boxes had been dropped on one corner at some point. Worse, I couldn't find the receipt. Swore violently, came home, calmed down enough to drive, headed North with the flower_cat who's good company and willing to put up with a simultaneously depressed and enraged bear, only to discover that they couldn't process my return without a receipt until Tuesday at the earliest. And that they didn't have any more of that kind of desk in stock.

Headed back home and out to El Torrito for mediocre but family-friendly Mexican -- it's comfort food for the clan; for a long time it was the only place the entire family could agree on going to. They have a couple new dishes on the menu. Had a large marguerita; by the end of the meal I had mellowed out considerably.

Over to finagler's barbecue, arriving at about 8pm, where the Cat and I could hang out with grown-ups (though we were nearly twice the age of most of the people in the room -- at least they weren't our kids). Met fairyshaman. While the Cat socialized, I noodled on Brad's guitar. Eventually he came over and asked for my talking-blues version of "Jabberwocky" because he wanted to learn the chords. (G-C-D7, in that order. Easy.) That started me on a couple of songs: "I Am the Walrus" (obvious follower), "The Owl and the Pussycat", "World Inside the Crystal" (by that time what little audience I'd had had evaporated), "Silk and Steel", and "The Last Train". Brief talk with fairyshaman about filk and Tres Gique.

No massive cleanup -- the garage needs some while the dumpster's here. No walking, though I suspect I got the equivalant lugging 40Kg boxes up and down the stairs. No work on the album. No taxes. No disk upgrade -- the fileserver's up to 98%, and needs the upgrade desperately. I have the disks.

It's been the kind of weekend that you need a couple days' vacation to recover from, and I'll have to take them if I expect to make any progress on the things (listed briefly in the previous paragraph) that still need doing.

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[ravan.livejournal.com]

Ah, furniture shopping. Bleah. I do most of mine online these days. Saves my feet and stress. If I want it fast, I get it from Amazon and order stuff that qualifies for Prime (I've already used more than the $79 it cost back in October!) They deliver it to my work, I get the people there to help me load it in my car.

I got my new futon mattress here. $298. It took me a few hours of web searching and comparisons, but I got what I wanted, for a good price.