Helpers arrived at 3:20 p.m., unloading took three full hours (including the batch of things to be unloaded into a storage unit five miles up the road). The torrential downpour showed an uncharacteristic level of courtesy by waiting to begin until thirty seconds after we finished unloading. My nice, clean, uncluttered home now looks like this:

I now look like this:

I am now going to go take a shower and get some dinner. Then I have to put together my bed. I am making the rather optimistic assumption that the hardware required is actually attached to the bed pieces somewhere. Otherwise I'll be on the phone to my sweetie in the rather near future.
The cats, being very sensible creatures, are napping under the covers of Ben's bed, which is located in a nice, quiet, uncluttered room. I am considering joining them there.

I now look like this:

I am now going to go take a shower and get some dinner. Then I have to put together my bed. I am making the rather optimistic assumption that the hardware required is actually attached to the bed pieces somewhere. Otherwise I'll be on the phone to my sweetie in the rather near future.
The cats, being very sensible creatures, are napping under the covers of Ben's bed, which is located in a nice, quiet, uncluttered room. I am considering joining them there.