Preparations begin

I picked up Gregg from the airport in the wee hours of Thursday morning. For those of you worried, he did not pack an axe and after a while, we made it back safely to Cambridge after detours all around East Boston and Cambridge due to late night construction and road closures.

On Thursday morning I helped Gregg install one of Maddie and Vic's new air conditioners, and about 68 boxes containing the kitchen cabinets arrived from Ikea. M&V arrived in the evening with Thai food and met Gregg for the first time. They didn't run away. We ate and got a game plan together for the project. Then we made a trip over to Home Depot for supplies, where Gregg mezmerized and befriended the managerial staff with a very rapid (world record) assembly of a Gorilla ladder.

We returned to the new condo and decided to cut a small hole in the living room closet to check out the brick behind the wall. But it was 11pm and we received a call from the neighbor within minutes. Ixnay on the oisenay. We geared up to start the deconstruction on Friday morning. M&V took the day off from work so we'll all be there to start the deconstruction!