Cup management is a hard thing. You don't start thinking about it until it's too late. "Gee, I could use a drink. Oh. The cups are in the dish washer. I can't have a drink, there are no cups." We come into this world thinking our supplies of cups are endless. But they're not, you take a drink, you put it in the dish washer...it stays dirty until you've got a full load to run. If you don't have a full load, you either don't drink, or you wash by hand. Quite a predicament. This is something they should teach you when you're young. Forget cursive hand writing, kids in today's society don't need that. Teach them how to manage cups, and you will change the world.

Before the furniture came today, I decided to vacuum the living room again. Given my first pass through, I figured it couldn't hurt to try again. Not too long into it I realized that the entire tube that passes dirt from the roller to the filter and emptying canister was clogged with more dirt, and dust and hair and who knows what else. I spent the next twenty five minutes pulling wads of dog hair and crap from the vacuum with my fingers, until it could work up enough pressure to pull the remainder of it through on its own. After that I did another sweep and emptied the canister two more times. How gross is that?

Then the furniture came. The guys delivering it were great, they brought it all up and set it up for us. Unfortunately there was a tear in the leather (exposing wood below) on our love seat, and they're having to send someone down on Tuesday to look at it. I'm 99.9% sure that it's irreparable and we're getting it replaced, but we're in no rush, so we'll go through the motions.

Once that was done, I set up the peripherals in the TV console and tried to get cable hooked up again. Since the TV is now on the other side of the room, we needed a longer cable. Brooke happened to have one from school, so I used that. Sadly, one end was broken and unusable. So we went across the street (to the mall) and stopped at Radio Shack to buy a new connector. I didn't have a stripper to just expose the wire, so I spent some time with an exacto knife pulling away at the insulation until I could fit the new connector on. A little bit of electrical tape for good measure, and we were in business. Then we came to realize that this is the first time the cable box had been powered down (full power down initiates the reset sequence the next time it boots), and every time it came back up, it thought the cable card in the receiver was not inserted. Talked to someone very nice at Cablevision for about 30 minutes, only to be told the box is fried and I need a replacement. This isn't incredibly inconvenient because I need to replace it with an HD set anyway, but it still is a pain in the butt. Tomorrow I'll take a trip to Norwalk and get the replacement.

Now Brooke is cooking dinner and we'll eat for the first time on our new table. While we're doing that, you can check out some new pictures of the furniture, by clicking here.