To start this story backward, I finally have some furni­ture in my house, thanks to a weekend trip to Ikea.

It had been two months since I moved to Seattle, and I figured it was now or never. So last Saturday, I took the plunge and bought myself a neat little corner worksta­tion where I could keep my desktop computer and work (?). That wasn’t quite enough, so I also got a chair, and a sofa that doubles up as a bed.

The most inter­esting part of buying furni­ture from Ikea is that it needs to be assem­bled. When I finally had time to do this, it was something like one o’clock in the middle of the night, but that wasn’t going to stop me now, was it? I started assem­bling the table first, but I reached a point where I needed to hammer in a few nails, and being a good and kind neighbor, I desisted. The rest of the table was left for the morning.

There are a few words of wisdom I would like to pass on to the reader. These are:

• Before inserting any metal screw/object into a hole, ensure that it is the right size. Especially if it can only be removed with the aid of a coat hanger.
• Do not use a hammer early in the morning when you are partially asleep. There is a good chance that the hammer will wake you up in an unpleasant manner.
• If you buy a sofa for your living room, make sure there is something that the occupant of the sofa can look toward. If you don’t have a TV, at least get a coffee-table.

That’s all folks!

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