Red Mosquito

I’ve done enough DIY assembly now that IKEA is no big deal. YouTube is your friend when the instructions are useless.

Higgs wrote:

96583UP wrote:i put together an ikea table today

i think that qualifies me for insanity defense if i commit a crime

I had to put together 3 separate sets of stand alone big arse clothes drawers from Ikea a few years ago. I still have ptsd from that particular weekend, specifically those draw runner fuckers. Not a jury in the land would convict you.

yes anything with drawers is death

this table was simple enough

but the pain lingers on

spike wrote:I’ve done enough DIY assembly now that IKEA is no big deal. YouTube is your friend when the instructions are useless.

you are brave

Drawer runners are the devils own contraption. In the same league as hanging fucking blinds and curtains.

oof hanging blinds is the actual worst

i have a local handyman i call for that usually

but had to replace a one-off a few months ago

the pain lingers on

I assembled eight chairs and a table for my parents' back deck a couple years ago. Just me in the garage, listening to music, fitting pieces together and tightening bolts. One of the better days of my life

The Argonaut wrote:I assembled eight chairs and a table for my parents' back deck a couple years ago. Just me in the garage, listening to music, fitting pieces together and tightening bolts. One of the better days of my life

Better than the shed roof?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I assembled eight chairs and a table for my parents' back deck a couple years ago. Just me in the garage, listening to music, fitting pieces together and tightening bolts. One of the better days of my life

Better than the shed roof?

I'm proud of the shed roof as an accomplishment but the actual day to day of it was hard. And it took like a week, yikes

The Argonaut wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I assembled eight chairs and a table for my parents' back deck a couple years ago. Just me in the garage, listening to music, fitting pieces together and tightening bolts. One of the better days of my life

Better than the shed roof?

I'm proud of the shed roof as an accomplishment but the actual day to day of it was hard. And it took like a week, yikes

I'm proud of you for seeing it through.

canadian citizenship doctors appointment this afternoon

doug rr wrote:canadian citizenship doctors appointment this afternoon

Say hi to Dev

wow

big time

see u in RM get together Nunavut 2034

The Argonaut wrote:I assembled eight chairs and a table for my parents' back deck a couple years ago. Just me in the garage, listening to music, fitting pieces together and tightening bolts. One of the better days of my life

I get this. When you have the space and are decently set up and have that rare uncluttered mindset, this sort of thing can be cathartic. Kinda "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" type thing. I've had one or two of those.

But drawers and blinds are by their nature born from tight confines and claustrophobic mental states.

The yin and yang of DIY.

doug rr wrote:canadian citizenship doctors appointment this afternoon

Traitor go Blue Jays

I love putting together ikea furniture.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

doug rr wrote:canadian citizenship doctors appointment this afternoon

Traitor go Blue Jays

now thinking about Mitch Williams and Joe Carter

About to brave the cold snap and go for a hike.

just reloaded the beer fridge only to find a coca cola that was too close to the cold blower had frozen and exploded, leaving brown sludge all over the inside of the fridge in all sorts of nooks and crannies

as i lurched over with a wet paper towel aggressively attempting to work free the dark brown solidified residue, i considered quitting; as it is only a beer fridge, and could be entitled to a certain level of weathering

but then i remembered it would go nowhere, and only solidify harder; no one else would clean it, it was up to me, and now was the time

and a song came into my head, and I thought to myself

"if we don't take action now..."

Spoiler: show

and i scrubbed the mf shit out of it

bodysnatcher wrote:I love putting together ikea furniture.

ok u can come to my house next time