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A slightly unexpected development yesterday regarding moving the workshop, but…

From here on, unless stated otherwise or completely obvious, all abbreviations are written in Cyrillic.

You have probably noticed my rather gloomy mood about moving the workshop, but yesterday there was — shall we say — some progress.

Anyway — I filled a bag with Friulmodel metal tracks (15 sets in total, or roughly 3 kg of metal), plus some other stuff — paints, thinners and the like — and went to work with the idea of taking them to the workshop after working hours.

So, yesterday morning I got an email from antares-bg.net saying that the chair I had ordered from them, which was listed as “in stock,” would be delivered on… Tuesday, 18 March 2025. In other words — next week. Considering that the desk was also out of stock at IKEA, my mood completely tanked.

And so it went until 12:30, when, while I was “dozing off” in a meeting, I got an SMS from IKEA saying that my order had arrived at the Sofia store and would be waiting for me for 3 days. Now — I had already paid for it and they had already taken my money — so I was not quite sure what exactly was supposed to happen after those 3 days, but… I called my brother, he agreed to help, and by 19:30 we were loading the desk (and a few other small things) into his Forester.

By 20:00 we were already in front of the workshop. It turned out that my “partner” Ivan was there, so my brother and I only unloaded the packages (and the bag of tracks), while Ivan and I carried everything up to the third floor.

And then another snag — because IKEA had surprised me in the middle of the working day, I had not brought any screwdrivers. So Ivan and I went to the nearby Kaufland for beers and some kind of screwdrivers, and at 20:30 we started assembling the desk.

As it turned out — as with almost all IKEA furniture — the process was pretty straightforward. So after an hour and a half we had reached this point:

We left at around 22:00, but I did not get home until about 23:30, because in the meantime we had to fill in accident reports. Nothing serious — scratches on the front and rear bodywork, but… that is a story for another time 🤣