This is not auspicious.
I got a shelf-unit sort of thing for Christmas. I don't think it's Ikea, but it's the same sort of principle - a bunch of boards with holes in, things to put in the holes to fasten them together, and a diagram showing where everything goes. The computer desk I'm at now went up the same way.
But the exciting challenge that this thing poses, you see, is that there are no FUCKING NUMBERS on the components to help me match them to the diagram, and the diagram isn't good enough to easily tell which of the very similar components is what. Oh, I'll get the bastard built, but it's going to involve substantially more trial and error than I expected to have to use and I can forget my original goal of popping it together in an evening and retiring to bed happy.
Bah. I'm going to keep at it for another hour and a half. That way when I pack it in for the night it'll be January 2 and I won't have to live with the knowledge that I kicked off 2007 with a defeat
I got a shelf-unit sort of thing for Christmas. I don't think it's Ikea, but it's the same sort of principle - a bunch of boards with holes in, things to put in the holes to fasten them together, and a diagram showing where everything goes. The computer desk I'm at now went up the same way.
But the exciting challenge that this thing poses, you see, is that there are no FUCKING NUMBERS on the components to help me match them to the diagram, and the diagram isn't good enough to easily tell which of the very similar components is what. Oh, I'll get the bastard built, but it's going to involve substantially more trial and error than I expected to have to use and I can forget my original goal of popping it together in an evening and retiring to bed happy.
Bah. I'm going to keep at it for another hour and a half. That way when I pack it in for the night it'll be January 2 and I won't have to live with the knowledge that I kicked off 2007 with a defeat
india:
I think those diy units are always difficult. I recently got a bunch of furniture from ikea and I would have found it a lot easier if there has been some words or even arrows on the diagrams instead of various pictures of stages in the diy process.