Coffee, and other conundrums...
Jun. 27th, 2005 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpFinding coffee this morning was not as easy as I had imagined. Along the way, I figured I'd find a place that sells clothesline-quality rope/twine/what-have you, and struck out there, as well. Eventually, I would up walking to the Galeria, where I picked up a passable (and not terribly expensive) coffee at a kiosk called Puff-In, which features a puffin bird as a logo and decent mini-creampuffs as its stock-in-trade gimmick.
If nothing else, the walk to and from the Galeria was a good workout, though it was apparent there are a number of people strolling around the Galeria solely for the purpose of doing some mild cardiovascular exercise in a nice, air-conditioned environment. (In fact, I managed to navigate through the Saks Fifth Avenue store by following one such gentleman, thereby avoiding false trails that might lead to, say, ladies evening gowns or something equally elegant.)
The weather, which had been so horridly uncooperative yesterday, tacked and allowed me to open the truck and consolidate the stuff we took out of the large storage unit yesterday. I am now feeling a lot better about fitting the contents of the other two, smaller units into the payload area, with probably enough left over to accommodate a fairly large load of packaging material from U-Line, which has a depot not far out of my way north of Dallas.
Natalie came home during lunch and shuttled me to the local Home Depot for some clothesline, which I will use to create a cargo net of sorts to keep the stuff in the forward part of the payload area from shifting. We plan to return to Pearland tonight to empty out the remaining storage units. If I am fortunate, I'll get to sleep in time tonight to wake at around 3 am for the long trek home, including the stop at U-Line.
The major question to be resolved immediately is whether to take a nap before or after securing the load.
Cheers...
If nothing else, the walk to and from the Galeria was a good workout, though it was apparent there are a number of people strolling around the Galeria solely for the purpose of doing some mild cardiovascular exercise in a nice, air-conditioned environment. (In fact, I managed to navigate through the Saks Fifth Avenue store by following one such gentleman, thereby avoiding false trails that might lead to, say, ladies evening gowns or something equally elegant.)
The weather, which had been so horridly uncooperative yesterday, tacked and allowed me to open the truck and consolidate the stuff we took out of the large storage unit yesterday. I am now feeling a lot better about fitting the contents of the other two, smaller units into the payload area, with probably enough left over to accommodate a fairly large load of packaging material from U-Line, which has a depot not far out of my way north of Dallas.
Natalie came home during lunch and shuttled me to the local Home Depot for some clothesline, which I will use to create a cargo net of sorts to keep the stuff in the forward part of the payload area from shifting. We plan to return to Pearland tonight to empty out the remaining storage units. If I am fortunate, I'll get to sleep in time tonight to wake at around 3 am for the long trek home, including the stop at U-Line.
The major question to be resolved immediately is whether to take a nap before or after securing the load.
Cheers...
