Domesticity and the AFT.

So, the stuff we bought at IKEA.

We bought a desk, only before you think we spent that much, we didn't. The default choice of legs it shows is not what we bought, we just got the plain old straight legs. Do the job just as well, just don't provide quite the same stylish executive look. Which is good thing. The desk is now all set up and this is my first diary entry typed sat at my new desk.

We bought a sofabed, which is probably the coolest thing of the lot. Sadly the bed we bought isn't on the website, so I can't show it to you. Between them the bed and the desk have transformed the 'top room', our second living room. It perhaps seems a slightly smaller room, but the changes in layout are worthwhile ones. It's a bit easier to be sat at the computer and be sociable at the same time.

We bought some kitchen shelves, which were a bastard to put up, owing to the simple logic of measuring out where the holes should go to fix them to the wall not working. Eventually, I beat the little sods into submission and won the day. Who's the man? The shelves we got are also not on the website, but a similar set of shelves are. Ours are narrower shelves and there are six of them instead of two, but the style is the same. They make such a difference to the kitchen, it's amazing.

Those of you with no interest in the domesticity of my life may start reading again now. Coming up next month, following on from Anne's IFT and Sham's EFT (which hasn't taken place yet, but takes place sooner), is my AFT (American Fun Tour). This brings the reverse vowelage to an end, making it anyone's guess where any of us will go next.

Anyway, next month, Alison has a conference in New York. This was going to mean her flying out on the Tuesday for the conference starting on the Wednesday, then flying back overnight the Tuesday/Wednesday of the following week. After much consultation and discussion over the possibilities of me travelling with her and/or joining her out there for a break, it was decided that we would travel together both ways, and would fly out there on the Saturday before the conference. This gives us three or four days of looking at New York together, after which Alison would do the conference thing and I would do the solo tourist thing and also meet up with people I know over there.

Then after the conference it's a two day trip to Ithaca, in the interior of New York State, for Alison to scout out venues and hotels, and for me to wander around the Cornell Campus looking for landmarks that appeared in Road Trip. Sad fucker that I am. Then we fly back overnight the Tuesday/Wednesday, lie about in a jet-lagged heap on the Wednesday, and return to work on the Thursday. That would be the sucky bit of it all. That and getting the Lego sets and Digital Camera through customs.

And that would be some of the extra detail I promised in the last entry.