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Yesterday Christine proposed we continue on with our hall project. We've gotten rid of the CD shelves and the boxes of CDs as well as other stuff have been sitting in the hall. We've now moved "other stuff" into the broken shower enclosure and the CDs to under the kitchen pass through. The hall was cleared and the flattened box on which Christine had placed the boxes removed, so we could see the effect of two months of hall walking traffic on one side. *sigh*
We had a pre Ikea adventure from the website, as i created a small spreadsheet and recorded the model numbers and warehouse numbers for the bookcase pieces. I think they no longer carry the doors i wanted; i think we could return the doors using the car and slow driving if i really don't like these (white trim instead of no trim around the glass). We studied the lighting options, and then had lunch. Christine ordered a truck: the only pickups available on short notice were around the Santa Clara-Sunnyvale border on El Camino. (El Camino is a major commercial thoroughfare along much of peninsula. You can sometimes tell where towns change, but generally it's just unmitigated commercial use.) The rest of the adventure was from 2-7 with possibly as much time spent dealing with the truck -- especially if you count navigating the Ikea parking lot -- as spent in Ikea or lugging the three eighty-five pound, eighty inch long packages up to our flat. We were very clever, i think, but i think i would have unpacked them on the sidewalk before our stairs and brought up pieces. Christine suggests that we should revisit delivery fees next time.
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From the Washington Post via the Mercury, in phone vs txt:
We had a pre Ikea adventure from the website, as i created a small spreadsheet and recorded the model numbers and warehouse numbers for the bookcase pieces. I think they no longer carry the doors i wanted; i think we could return the doors using the car and slow driving if i really don't like these (white trim instead of no trim around the glass). We studied the lighting options, and then had lunch. Christine ordered a truck: the only pickups available on short notice were around the Santa Clara-Sunnyvale border on El Camino. (El Camino is a major commercial thoroughfare along much of peninsula. You can sometimes tell where towns change, but generally it's just unmitigated commercial use.) The rest of the adventure was from 2-7 with possibly as much time spent dealing with the truck -- especially if you count navigating the Ikea parking lot -- as spent in Ikea or lugging the three eighty-five pound, eighty inch long packages up to our flat. We were very clever, i think, but i think i would have unpacked them on the sidewalk before our stairs and brought up pieces. Christine suggests that we should revisit delivery fees next time.
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From the Washington Post via the Mercury, in phone vs txt:
Kevin Loker, 20, a rising junior at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va., said he and his school friends rarely just call someone for fear of being seen as rude or intrusive. First, they text to make an appointment to talk. "They'll write, 'Can I call you at such-and-such time?' " said Loker, executive editor of Connect2Mason.com, a student media site. "People want to be polite. I feel like, in general, people my age are not as quick on their feet to just talk on the phone."
The bias against unexpected phone calls stems in good part from the way texting and e-mail have conditioned young people to be cautious about how they communicate when they are not face to face, experts say.