April 25th, 2006

I was just leaving the place where it is going to be set up and we saw a unmarked delivery truck scream down to the end of the road the people who are letting me put the press in the basement, turn around and go screaming back up the road. I jump into my truck after I was waving at his from across the field from his perspective and he apparently did not see me.

I flew down the driveway in my truck to catch the guy, and me.. being me.. scrambling to put on my seatbelt as I just know I am going to do a "Dukes of Hazard" around the corner at the end of the driveway and I chase the guy down the road, fairly sure I am going to have to chase him all the way to town and pretty sure I could tackle him and tie him like a calf in a rodeo if he stopped at any stop signs before he got to town if need be.

He saw me chasing him when he slowed down and I showed him the way back to the house and how to drive to get to the basement door. I tackled him about a mile away from where the chase started. Not as bad as I was fearing.

The packing slip says 3 men must carry this monstrous crate. We have me.. and a wimpy guy who made me look big. No handtruck, no ramp out of this truck which the floor was chest high on me.. he asks for a piece of plywood to slide it down.. I think not.. I hop up on the truck, lift a side of the pallet and say "let's do it".. my "MIL" freaked out.. I was determined.. This crate was NOT getting away... and though I had to catch my breath afterwards for 10 minutes.. we got it off the truck and walked it, non-stop through the basement and into the room furthest from the door where my workroom will be (of course). Umm.. remember I fractured my back 8 months ago.. some days I am really dumb, but thankfully other than being out of breath, I did not hurt myself. I wanted that press….

It is here, it is here, it is here! I was doing jon's Snoopy Dance all over the basement when the guy left. THEN my "FIL" whose arms and back we could use got home and walked into the basement after we got everything uncrated. He is just as bad as me and we start pulling it apart, putting it together and pushing buttons. We managed to get it to print and it has its own computer thingy built in, so it spit all these 8 pages of instructions out at us. Good thing we were playing with it.. as that is the ONLY instructions that came with it.

So... if you guys do not see me in the next few days, I am printing like a mad woman. I plan on being there before 10 am tomorrow.

Thank you to everyone who has been listening to me whine and complain about the trials and tribulations of the last week or two.

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