Saturday, June 14, 2008

I don't think I could shoot a game of pool with even a shotgun.

The game room as be pretty much cleared out of furniture and other junk. We;d been work on it for a couple of weeks trying to list stuff on Craig's List or at a garage sale recently. CL is a great place for classified ads and is a major reason why so many newspapers are hurting so much for advertising revenue. Who would pay $10-30 for 3 small lines of text per day when you can list an item, with pictures and all the space for description you would want for free. When the item sells, the ad can be delete where othewise one may still get calls frow a paper ad.

We'd been looking for a decent pool table for a while and found a system that we liked that include much of what we wanted in terms of look, accessories, and price. I am quite sure that the main thing that caught Kristen's eye was the light that would go over the pool table as it was in the colors and design of Tampa's NFL team. We had driven up to to take a look a few days earlier, but didn't have the time or muscle to move it. Kristen's brother was nice enough to come up today to spend his time to help me move it. Professional movers charge $300-500 to move and install tables, and I can understand why they can demand so much. Even with the slate taken apart in 3 pieces, it is massively heavy. It took us a couple of hours to get it taken apart, wrapped, and secured in the trailer. We had to then move everything into the house when we got back. Hopefully when everything gets set up it'll look pretty good.

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