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Posted on November 12, 2007 By Liquid Egg Product 13 Comments on Expanding
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When I started this blog, I promised I wouldn’t do this. If you read this, you will be subjecting yourself to more personal stories. [EDIT: OK, so this post is brutally long. So sorry. I just cut a few things out to make it look more manageable.]

Seeing as I brought pretty much nothing in the way of furniture when moving, I’m having to restock most everything. The top priority was getting an actual work desk and chair (got both for $50), since I’m telecommuting, and it would have been dreadful joint stiffness otherwise. Setting up everything on boxes and suitcases, while possible, would certainly been an inferior set-up.

So for the past couple weeks the sum of my furniture has been the following:

Work desk (1)
Work chair (1)
Air mattress (2) (contribution from parents)

So eating meals and watching TV have been conducted on the floor, which I don’t even consider an inconvenience. But it would be nice to have a comfy chair with soft cushions, and some other stuff. Especially now my TV watching is up from about a hour a week to maybe 6 hours a week (concentrated on Sundays, consistenting entirely of sports or “educational” channels).

SDTV

I’m not sure why a TV manufacturer would brag about SDTV capabilities. For me, it signaled “cheaper”.

On Saturday, I went to Ikea on multiple people’s recommendations. First of all, it must noted that the length of time it took me to link Ikea’s colors with Sweden’s flag was embarrassingly long. Then again, I am American, so knowing what Sweden’s flag looks like–heck, knowing Sweden’s in Indonesia–probably puts me ahead of the curve.

It’s worth stopping in an Ikea once. I’m sure there’s some variation in them, but this one was pretty big, including a restaurant and kids’ play area. They lay everything out in a huge circle. Think I spent about 3 hours there deciding on the look of furniture, evaluating cost vs quality, and watching Notre Dame get destroyed by Air Force.

They even have some Engrish…one wall contains a world map mural, upon which they mark their locations. Looks like they have 3 or 4 stores in “Tawain”.

Incidentally, there was a very strong possibility of buying a TV stand that was more expensive than my TV. Finding that odious in principle, I made sure that didn’t happen. I ended up going with a cheapo side table and TV stand, decent chair, and splurged (relatively) on the coffee table.

A lot of the furniture you pick up in boxes just before reaching the cashier, and when you’re in the showroom, there’s a tag that indicates which aisle to pick your stuff in. You end up going through their entire store first, which means they can sell you more stuff. They ended up getting about 20% more money out of me in the lighting section. Got a floor lamp (the design was called “Not”, which probably means something else in Swedish). And a blue glowy decoration thing, which was, sadly, more expensive than the Not lamp. But it was nifty, and the number of decorations I own is painfully few anyway. And more energy-saving light bulbs.

Upon picking up the boxes, I made the discovery that I’m capable of carrying 107 pound (48 kg) boxes that contain, say, a coffee table, for short distances.

Upon getting home, I re-discovered that I’m capable of carrying 107 pound (48 kg) boxes that contain, say, a coffee table, for short distances. Unwisely, I tried to carry the coffee table from the car to the apartment–and I was this close to making it–but I dropped it on its corner and ended up shattering the glass sheet for the table top.

The smart thing would have been to think, “OK, this is 107 pounds (48 kg)*; maybe I can open up the box and carry the pieces in a more manageable fashion.”

* Note: Every time I think pounds, I quickly divide by 2.201 and think the kg as well.

After cleaning up the glass and assembling all the furniture it came out something like this. Besides the blue glowy decoration thing, I put out a couple of my nicer chess sets (well, my only nice chess sets) in lieu of actual decorations.

The results can be seen in these night pictures, with only the blue glowy decoration thing on. The first picture was taken with a longer exposure and no flash; the second was with flash.

Blue Room Exposure

Blue Room Flash

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13 thoughts on “Expanding”

  1. Derek Slater says:
    November 12, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    Pad is lookin good. Those chess sets will definitely get the ladies’ attention.

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  2. Liquid E. P. Mascot says:
    November 12, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    The girls aren’t taking a second look. Even on the larger set, the King is only 4 inches.

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  3. annie says:
    November 12, 2007 at 4:38 pm

    ooooo blue glowy thing…reminds me of the love scene in top gun…very nice touch, Donnie! heh heh now if I can just find the right girl…

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  4. Samuraipawn says:
    November 12, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    The only thing that’s missing in your pad is the shaved guy from Lost Highway…

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  5. Caroline :) says:
    November 13, 2007 at 12:30 am

    So one person gets to play chess while sitting comfortably in the chair, while the other suffers from back pain from having to play sitting on the floor?

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  6. Donnie says:
    November 13, 2007 at 1:05 am

    @Derek: Thanks. Although girls tend not to dig chess (you won’t be surprised that only 4% of USCF members are female)

    @Mascot: ……. What, did you break in and measure the chess sets?

    @Annie: Haven’t seen Top Gun.

    @Samurai: Haven’t seen Lost Highway.

    @Caroline: I prefer to think of it as home-field advantage.

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  7. ookwelbekendalsemc says:
    November 13, 2007 at 1:19 am

    Great read! The pictures remind me somewaht of Miami Vice. My all time favourite cop show.

    Btw, if the ladies don’t give those King’s a second look, you can always replace them for something like this. I bet that’ll get their attention. They come in both colors. 😉

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  8. ookwelbekendalsemc says:
    November 13, 2007 at 1:23 am

    “The pictures remind me somewaht of Miami Vice.”

    Oops! That’s Engrish. 😆

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  9. Samuraipawn says:
    November 13, 2007 at 6:27 am

    My bad, he isn’t shaved. Still think he would go quite nice with that blue lamp though:
    http://www.bookforum.com/uploads/upload.000/id00256/article04.jpg

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  10. Donnie says:
    November 13, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    @ookwelbekendalsemc: Watch out, we Americans are uptight about that kind of thing! 😉 A sex toy chess set would actually be interesting, but not something I’d show to the average guest.

    I’m thinking of cobbling together a drinking chess set (more as a conversation piece than for actual use). Just need to figure out enough distinctive shot/wine glass shapes to use.

    Engrish is always welcome at Liquid Egg Product.

    @Samuraipawn: I’m not having that guy over for dinner! Unless maybe if he doesn’t bring the camcorder.

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  11. annie says:
    November 14, 2007 at 12:18 am

    YOU’VE NEVER SEEN TOP GUN? YET YOU POSSESS Y CHROMOSOMES??

    You must remedy this travesty immediately. Personally I cannot stand the cheesy 80’s male posturing (or homoerotic volleyball scene) but from what I hear from carlos, a working knowledge of top gun is as necessary for a man as stubble on your day off.

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  12. l3rucewayne says:
    November 14, 2007 at 3:59 am

    That big one is a very nice board, difficult to see the pieces though. I have a homemade board that looks like it I think. The blue thing from what I can tell looks like a bunch of cards stacked on top of each other and twisted to look like spiral stairs. nice chair. cool glow. I give the pad 4 stars out of five. (yes I picked that number out of thin air, but it does look nice.)

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  13. Donnie says:
    November 14, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    @Annie: OK, sounds like I need to rectify this in the near future. Top Gun’s never appealed to me, though.

    @l3rucewayne: The darkness of the room and the camera vantage point hides some deficiencies! It looks a bit different in normal lighting. But thanks for the positive review. For me, it certainly is sufficient. The only other furniture I’d want is a loveseat or couch to nap in.

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