Snag #1

We hit our first snag tonight in the move and it was a big one. We decided to purchase our desks from Ikea and go with the Galant line. They've got a nifty tool that let us lay the place out and the stuff was several times less expensive than all of the other vendors. It's not the most durable stuff, but given that we're not sure how we're going to use the space yet it seemed like a great choice.

...and then the problems began....

As everyone probably knows, Ikea desks require a certain amount of assembly. In the interest of keeping the team who is hard at work on Mass Effect working hard, we hired some folks who are professional furniture assembly people. Sadly, they came in, worked for about seven hours and massively mis-assembled everything.

With 48 hours until the move we turned our usual Thursday night game night into a furniture assembly party. I'm told by our friends at BioWare than they used to make all the new people build their own desks so this plan isn't completely crazy.

About four hours, several pizzas and a healthy amount of beer later, we got just about everything put together.