harbl encouragement thread

congrats/good luck

i just did one i wish i were there to help you.

i could provide the brains, you will have to be the brawn. if your problem is not with the brain part but with the brawn part, jergins will have to take my place.

Yay harbl!

i gave up on the bed. i just put the mattress on the ground in the middle of the frame. my cat is so skeptical of this house. she hid behind my coffee maker on the counter. i said "oh buddy! it's ok!"

ah shit, do i need to come there?

i think you do.

i think i ruined the bed. this diagram is so wrong and it made me make a really big mistake. i got some pliers so i'm going to try to pull these pegs out.

which bed is it?

malm. i had rented a van and they didn't have the bed i wanted at the store so i got this boring one. pliers didn't work. i think there are other tools i can use to get them out and i can order new ones. it was just on the headboard so i moved on to other, very difficult and ridiculous steps.

are you sure you messed up? there are youtubes and stuff to help. you probably know that, though. i wish i were there to help you.

not like i'm an ikea savant or anything, i just think i could help.

ps tehersa <3 we will, eventually.

i recently got sought out by a friend from high school who lives in the suburbs (ellicot city?) who apparently remembers me fondly after all this time, even though as i remember it i was such an anonymous nerd who was only there for 2 years. although i guess what he renembers expressly are the letters i wrote from college, which were allegedly so amusing and entertaining that he would read them multiple times and they always brightened his days. which is obviously some rose-colored memory because i've read letters i wrote when i was 18 and oh my god what a dippy, dumb person i was.

anyway, yes, we have multiple people to visit in the area. it will be so fun!

(except that high school guy says he can assemble at a moments notice a group of high school people for a get-together when i'm there, and i'm pretty sure i'm not up for that.)

the letters i wrote from college, which were allegedly so amusing and entertaining that he would read them multiple times and they always brightened his days

<3

i helped move/rebuild a malm once but i don't remember if it worked? they got married and had kids tho so i guess it couldn't have been too wrong

ugh it ate my post?

i was saying i fixed it! i googled and googled and this lady was saying she did the same thing and since wood contracts when heated you just blow a hair dryer at it for a little bit. i had to yank at it hard but they came out and the dowels were still usable. i have a headboard!

Grebt job, harbl! I knew you could do it ;)

happy birthday harbly

oh! hbh!!!

Hooray for harbl day!

thank U! my boss got me 2 mylar balloons. one said

Happy
Birthday
Princess

!!!

pix or
it didn't
happen

hbhrbl

happy birthday harbl

i miss you harbly girl

aw <3333333
i miss you too

https://baltimore.craigslist.org/tlg/4319345019.html

lol. i don't meet the age requirements yet. i do look like a construction worker or mechanic though.

i won a jury trial btw

way to go, harbl!

HARBL!!!!

today i lost an unloseable motion that i needed to win and it will make me more likely to lose a trial and that is going to mean maybe my drug/gun client gets 25 y w/o parole?

yet you are the best

my house got broken into and they took my computer and tv

looks like no one's posted to ilx under my name since me though

whoa that really really sucks!! i'm glad you weren't there when it happened.

omg I'm so sorry, harbl!

i wish i had been there, they probably knocked on the door first. but it made me realize my basement window lock wasn't such a lock. i still can't believe it really happened though!

oh jeez, sorry

it's very unsettling but i'm starting to feel a little better. they took replaceable things. i shouldn't feel embarrassed that a burglar and a cop saw that my house is a mess. at least i'm not a burglar, and the cop joked that i could blame it on the burglar. my not anymore bf helped me get a new computer. i have to dip into my savings i never touch to pay him back but i make money, so i can recover.

i'd just really like to watch a netflix dvd on my snow day and macbooks don't have dvd drives anymore?

oh harbl :-(

i feel like i'm in a parade of shit

i do this weird thing where i don't want to tell anyone anything. right now i've been avoiding calling the insurance company for 2.5 days. i did call them last night at 8 but claims was closed. the deductible is probably too big for me to bother.

our realtor said never report anything because your rate would skyrocket. i don't know if it's true, and i don't know if there are other compelling reasons to report.

i don't know anything about it though. insurance is weird.

I heard that about car insurance, too! If it's less than/close to deductible, maybe don't file a claim?

i talked to them just to make sure i understood my paperwork right. i can't remember what the claims person called it but she said something like a "report only" status so it would not affect my premium.

i lost a jury trial that took 3 days but they did deliberate for 6 hours including over half of the fourth day

i am going to have a clean bathroom by the end of the day. i need some encouragement though. maybe i'll ask horseshoe if she wants to have beers later, also.

I just cleaned mine because my aunt asked if she could stay with me last minute! AND I was thinking that earned a beer..you can do it, harbly!