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Freakin’ Ikea!  The furniture arrived a couple months ago, and it’s great.  Everything looks very nice.  Check out the living room now!  The problem is that I ordered four of the CD cabinets pictured here: three to assemble immediately, and one to stow away for future use, when my collection exceeds 3,000 discs.  The cabinets come packed in two individual boxes for each unit.  However, one of the boxes was missing in the shipment, and a call to Ikea indicated the item was on back-order.  No big deal, though, right?  I mean, I am not putting the fourth shelf together now anyway, so if it doesn’t come for a while it’s no problem.  Well, the message on the machine yesterday informed me that they would never be getting any more.  There’s the problem with Ikea: you can get nice stuff, but you better get all of it you will ever need in one shot, because it will be gone before you know it.  Now I have three identical shelves, and, before long when my collection exceeds the space they provide, I will be forced to find another type of shelf. Well, I am not going to have three identical shelves, and one different one.  That’s not the Dana Way.  It’s identical or nothing.  When I was a kid, I wouldn’t make anything out of Legos unless I knew ahead of time that I had a sufficient number of red pieces.  I wasn’t going to have some cheap looking space ship with one half red and the other grey.  That’s rookie crap.  So, up yours, Ikea.  But thanks for the other good furniture at affordable prices, especially the nice sofa-bed.

We are in the middle of pledge drive at the radio station, or as I call it, “beg-a-thon”.  If I may be so bold, however, I should say that we are better than some stations, since we do this only twice per year, and for a total of twenty days.  Moreover, we only spend around nine hours during those days begging, so it isn’t like it’s all that’s on.  In fact, my afternoon programs are not interupted at all.  The tens of listeners throughout north-central Florida who hear me appreciate that, I am sure.

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