On the dot

[pbray]

Yesterday I received a message saying my furniture would be delivered today between 10AM and 1PM. Today, at 10AM on the dot, the Olum's truck pulled up outside, and they began unloading.

I'd dissassembled the old mattress set myself, so I could vacuum and hauled out the sweater boxes of books that were living under there. Mostly Regency romances, that I'll have to go through and cull.

After everything was delivered, I tried two living room configurations, neither of which worked :-) before packing up to head into the office. I suspect that part of my problem is that most people don't view the living room as the appropriate place to store a bike. But I'm confident that I can figure out a good spot for the recliner before too long.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with a bike in the living room. Aim some track lighting at it and call it sculpture.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

And at least the bike gets regular use. When I had the Nordictrack in that spot, it quickly became a place to hang laundry.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Nordictracks seem to have a history of disuse. I can't count the number I've seen at yard sales, going begging. And a couple have ended up donated to Wife's nature center, for their auction.

I keep thinking of getting one, for the gap between bike weather and decent cross-country skiing. But . . .

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Further to this: hang it on the wall! Then it doesn't take up valuable carpet-space, and is still sculpture.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Wall space is for bookcases!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ah. Right you are. (Myself, I am cursed with whole long walls where I cannot put a bookcase, because the idiot who plumbed this house put ridiculous long radiators there. As a result, I have oodles of wallspace where I could hang a whole peloton of bicycles, if I were in any sense a cyclist.)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

If I had higher ceilings, I'd consider a pulley system :-)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Also good. I have high ceilings! This house is wasted on a non-cyclist!

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

And at least your bike won't go up in flames.

Some friends of ours had one motorbike in the dining room and another in the living room. They used to put tinsel and wassail balls on them at Christmas and the cats found the seats very comfy to sleep on.

It was only after the bikes hadbeen in-house several months that our friends looked at one other and said, "I don't actually remember draining the tanks of petrol...."

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Oops!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Eek. I am myself blessed with a brother-in-law who boasts an extraordinary array of scars on his chest, from the time he tried to weld a petrol tank - but let's not go there...

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

he tried to weld a petrol tank....

Sadly, I don't have an icon for "gobsmacked", but I hope this one will suffice.