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shannon_aWell, Summer seems to be upon us. This has indeed been a year when Berkeley only had two seasons, as it was raining and cloudy up until a week ago or so, and now we're getting balmy and humid weather. It's not hot yet, mind you, but another couple of degrees and my office will start to get uncomfortable; fortunately things look pretty stable for at least the next 10 days.
The end of May also means that Berkeley has become the Island of Misfit Furniture. As students move out of their homes they inevitably abandon furniture that they don't feel like moving.
The more speedy furniture suffers no worse fate than being quickly kidnapped for use in another student's home. However, if a piece of furniture isn't quite attractive enough, or if its owners didn't leave a "Free" sign, it sometimes gets left out overnight, which tends to result in grafitti and the theft of couch cusions, and thus the furniture sitting there for days, weeks, or months more.
We took advantage of furniture week to abandon a well-used rocking chair that we just didn't have space for any more (as discovered in the reorgnization of the Junk Room). I was quick enough to write up a "Free" sign, and thus the chair disappeared just as night fell.
It's the penultimate piece of major furniture from a set that my dad gave me about 10 years ago. There's still a chair in my office, but the rest is gone. (The main love seat of the set was given away the day we moved into this house; sadly some foot stools have probably been ruined in the garage. I need to see if they're recoverable some day, or if they should just be thrown out.)
Summer also brings the return of Danny, that sickly bastard who claims that he's trying to save the environment while posting signs about saving the environment on every pole, post, and tree in Berkeley.
It's a pyramid scheme, of course.
The end of May also means that Berkeley has become the Island of Misfit Furniture. As students move out of their homes they inevitably abandon furniture that they don't feel like moving.
The more speedy furniture suffers no worse fate than being quickly kidnapped for use in another student's home. However, if a piece of furniture isn't quite attractive enough, or if its owners didn't leave a "Free" sign, it sometimes gets left out overnight, which tends to result in grafitti and the theft of couch cusions, and thus the furniture sitting there for days, weeks, or months more.
We took advantage of furniture week to abandon a well-used rocking chair that we just didn't have space for any more (as discovered in the reorgnization of the Junk Room). I was quick enough to write up a "Free" sign, and thus the chair disappeared just as night fell.
It's the penultimate piece of major furniture from a set that my dad gave me about 10 years ago. There's still a chair in my office, but the rest is gone. (The main love seat of the set was given away the day we moved into this house; sadly some foot stools have probably been ruined in the garage. I need to see if they're recoverable some day, or if they should just be thrown out.)
Summer also brings the return of Danny, that sickly bastard who claims that he's trying to save the environment while posting signs about saving the environment on every pole, post, and tree in Berkeley.
It's a pyramid scheme, of course.