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Back at work after a four-day weekend, but hey, I survived it, and even got some stuff done. And then we got Scott's car back. It was the fan, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jenett - I am SO GLAD. Still not cheap but much better than most possible alternatives, anyway. Once the fan was replaced, the AC was fine again, even. We stopped it shy of actual damage. Then, in a truck borrowed from a friend (hi, Elaine, thank you, Elaine! very much!), we went and got nightstands from City Liquidators that we thought would match our bed and brought them home.
THAT was an adventure. We got there at 10 minutes to when they close, having NOT realized they close at 6 so not allowed adequate time. That's cutting it real close.... Then, we paid, went to the loading dock, and waited while he brought them out. By then it was after 6 and the actual store was closed. And he gets out there and says, hey, check the color on these. Your order gives the item number - and the color - but that color isn't this item number. (Both were copied down from a single label on a single nightstand that was the shade we wanted.) I looked at it and finally said I had no clue, it looked like maybe, but I didn't have my color patch WITH me since I'd just intended to get something already selected. We took them, knowing we could return if we had to, but AIE. The longer we drove, the more certain I was that they were both too light and too red, and we were TOAST.
We got them home, popped one of the box (they come fully set up), deposited it next to the bed...they match. They match SO CLOSE it's astonishing, like they were made to be a set. (They weren't: the knobs on the drawers don't match the bed, but they're close, you have to be looking for it or be very visually-responsive to be bugged by them.) I took some photos but in the light I had it's hard to really see. (The problem in judging color when we picked it up, I think, was seeing it in full sun - light we seldom see the bed in! But they very clearly go together and I can probably get a good photo when there's more daylight involved.)
WHEW.
Then we returned Elaine's truck, which was just super-funny. Scott pulled into her apartment complex, then neatly parked in a space. VERY neatly. The truck is large and he was being careful of the car in the slot to the right, so he was left in his space but still completely in it. He had to back up a little, however...because there are support posts and he was too far forward to open his door. Fixed that, got out, looked at it, and we started laughing. Elaine is, fortunately, tolerant. I say this because I think he had that thing within 3 inches of the posts - I know he had it within 6. She'll have to be careful getting it out. O.o Eeep. Or oops. Or something like that.
WE HAVE NIGHTSTANDS. And one in place. The other is not yet. We have to move the bed first, snug against the one nightstand that is in place, so there's enough room on the far side for the other. And won't that be fun?
jenett - I am SO GLAD. Still not cheap but much better than most possible alternatives, anyway. Once the fan was replaced, the AC was fine again, even. We stopped it shy of actual damage. Then, in a truck borrowed from a friend (hi, Elaine, thank you, Elaine! very much!), we went and got nightstands from City Liquidators that we thought would match our bed and brought them home.THAT was an adventure. We got there at 10 minutes to when they close, having NOT realized they close at 6 so not allowed adequate time. That's cutting it real close.... Then, we paid, went to the loading dock, and waited while he brought them out. By then it was after 6 and the actual store was closed. And he gets out there and says, hey, check the color on these. Your order gives the item number - and the color - but that color isn't this item number. (Both were copied down from a single label on a single nightstand that was the shade we wanted.) I looked at it and finally said I had no clue, it looked like maybe, but I didn't have my color patch WITH me since I'd just intended to get something already selected. We took them, knowing we could return if we had to, but AIE. The longer we drove, the more certain I was that they were both too light and too red, and we were TOAST.
We got them home, popped one of the box (they come fully set up), deposited it next to the bed...they match. They match SO CLOSE it's astonishing, like they were made to be a set. (They weren't: the knobs on the drawers don't match the bed, but they're close, you have to be looking for it or be very visually-responsive to be bugged by them.) I took some photos but in the light I had it's hard to really see. (The problem in judging color when we picked it up, I think, was seeing it in full sun - light we seldom see the bed in! But they very clearly go together and I can probably get a good photo when there's more daylight involved.)
WHEW.
Then we returned Elaine's truck, which was just super-funny. Scott pulled into her apartment complex, then neatly parked in a space. VERY neatly. The truck is large and he was being careful of the car in the slot to the right, so he was left in his space but still completely in it. He had to back up a little, however...because there are support posts and he was too far forward to open his door. Fixed that, got out, looked at it, and we started laughing. Elaine is, fortunately, tolerant. I say this because I think he had that thing within 3 inches of the posts - I know he had it within 6. She'll have to be careful getting it out. O.o Eeep. Or oops. Or something like that.
WE HAVE NIGHTSTANDS. And one in place. The other is not yet. We have to move the bed first, snug against the one nightstand that is in place, so there's enough room on the far side for the other. And won't that be fun?
