i will try to pick up the action from where i dropped off.
after that ride with joe i had another day of work before moving to boston. this was almost a breaking point when i was questioning what it is i am doing with my self and what i am doing working for less the minimum and less that what i need and should be making any way with or without my skills and knowledge, this especialy after the part time manager girl at the store asked me "so what would you rather be doing right now?" the truth is that i had a hard time thiking about what i would rather do other then work and sell cameras. i might would have wanted to work in a real camera store, but still i struggled, she told me all about who she is starting a bussiness and is going to make millions and on top of that she is sick of working there and that it sucks and that it could have been a much better store and all that and even then she wants out because she is so special. it made me upset that she is like me with a worthless MFA and trying to make a living but she owns a house, and is starting a bussines and she is not much older then i am and has all that experiance that i should have had by now. i was ready to quit and drove home in a bad mood. this was the last day of the week
after this we moved to boston.
this started with us getting a call from our landlady that the house is ready for us. actualy she dident call, i called her to ask if it was ok that i would be putting some stuff in the house and she just mentioned after the fact that we can move in. shit. we have been ready to move in for weeks and so was the fucking house. in the end it turned out ok as this was memorial weekend and a we had an extra day to get stuff done.we packed up our little honda with as much stuff as we could fit in it and drove up to the house. there was a plan to swich cars with my sister and take her van over night so we can move all the reamianing thigs in one load. luckely for us they had just gotten back from camping and had an extra container tied to the roof of the van. this would come in helpfull as the car was packed all the way up with no room to spare and still we had more stuff.
the honda van packed all the way up.
last time at jays house (almost) at East providence RI.
we only forgot a few small things and some trash at jays house and were all unpacked and ready to give back the car to my sister before noon. the house was now full of boxes and piles of carton boxes. this was really exciting for me, like tess said, i love opening new stuff like toys and shit, and now we had a new microwave vaccum dishes silverware and so many more things.... it was lots of fun setting it all up. the first thing we set up was the bed. this already made me feel more cumfortable in the house, this was the first time for both of with all new of our own stuff in our own place. sure we both had new beds before, be for me this felt a bit diffarent. it was so much fun, the first of so many things to follow in the new house that i enjoyed in much the same way. the sheets and bed spread came on it was really super cool. much better then i could have imagined it. we made some more house setting up and went for lunch. when we got back i started setting up tess's new ikea desk. this should have been a 2 second thing but it was not that easy as i thought it would be from the instructions they give. after that i moved immedietly to set up my beloved 80's heady desk. and then it hit me. we did not have the little screws that connect the diffarent plates of the table. we flipped over every bag we had, and looked in every fucking box we had packed, and it was no where to be found. this was devistating. this was custom made bits and the desk cannot be made with out them. after freaking out and banging on stuff and yelling, i set of with a sample of the bolt size to the home depot in west roxbury, wich is most liekly the home depot in the nicet place on earth, at the end of a park drive in the mist. oh, i forgot to mention that the whole day the entire west coast of the US including boston was covered in a misty smoke from some huge wild fires in canada. this gave the road an even better movie like look.
as i rushed in to the home depot and looked for the right screw i was optimistic as 1/4 inch screws come in all shapes and sizes. but then it downed on me that this was notgoing to be so easy. when i first bought the desk and wated to take it apart in order to move it none of the million allen hex keys would fit the bolts. this is because the fucking table is milimetric. it took 5 hours of driving finding a millimetric key set. then i figured, 1/4" is actualy the more acurate 5mm size. after some dismay i found that the home depot do have "some" milimetric screws. of course they did not have what i needed really. but none the less i took 11 screws, the longest they had were 50mm long. not nearly as long as needed, and also i bought a drill bit to try and drill of the 10mm head of the screw so it can replace my missing custom bolts. i had a file and a small saw (with no handle) at the house. with out a vice, and a real saw, drilling through the sync plated steel screw was usless. the saw dident do much good as i could not hold the screw down even with tesss help. i had to get up early for work the next day and so we turned in sad and frustrated.
house at day one.
after work i decided to drive down to providence to try and find the bolts we were missing. the traffic was not that easy. i was all ready and happy that tess had left her swim gear behind and was kinda sure that it can only possibly be there, but it was even worse to go there and not find them in the swim gear bag. i drove by the local home depot on the way back and got 1 vise, one small hack saw and a few replacment blades. i forgot tesss swim gear in providence and felt even worse about going all the way there and not getting anyrting. the guy at the store said i should get those replacment blades because they break easily. the first thing i did was set up the vise on tess desk with a spare piece of wood we i had from the bed material, and the two grippers i have. i then started cutting the first screw, and it went quite smoothly. though not as fast as i thought it would be. after the forth or fifth screw i guessed the blade was finished and i swiched them out wiht one of the spare ones. this was crazy, the new blade cut through the screw in 2 seconds. fuck, couldent he tell me that the blade the comes with the saw is shit??? to make this long story short, we got the desk set up and there was much rejoicing. yeehhh.
my screw hacking setup.
day two.
i will go to sleep now and do some more work here tomorrow.
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