Our first furniture delivery and our second Cali visitor

We finally got our first piece of new furniture delivered. Boo for delays; hooray for the couch finally being here, and in one piece. It looks pretty good in the room, and we're really happy with the decision to go with the brown leather. Now I need some accent pillows and a throw blanket to dress it up a bit. A rug, couple of arm chairs, coffee table, end tables, lamps, TV, and entertainment unit would help too :P We're working on it....

The kitchen table and chairs are due to arrive either this week or next. I won't be too sad to see the green folding table go (though we're really grateful for the loaner, mom!). Then it's the super cool dining room table that arrives next in mid-November or so. It's much cooler looking in real life than in this pic. It's 55" square with a butterfly leaf that folds into the table so no storing an extra leaf under the bed (my parents have a traditional table like that and it's a pain to store and protect that extra leaf for the one or two times a year you actually use it). And we didn't get those chairs. They had cool ones at the store but they were something like $450 a piece so we went somewhere else and got chairs for about $110 each instead.

We also had our second visitor from California here for a visit this past weekend. Well, P. actually came up from Philly where he's currently at business school, but he's part of the Cali crew. W. filled in on Wharton's B team and P. wasn't kidding when he said it was b-school B...not the highest quality v-ball we've ever played, but W. enjoyed just being on the court again. I played one game, got a few good digs in, was happy. The Wharton team kicked Harvard's butt, which made P. happy. Why are people always out to get Harvard??? :) Then, in a dramatic and yet anti-climatic ending to the tournament, as Wharton met up with Kellogg in a heated game 2 in a best-of-three match with Wharton trailing by one game but up nine points in game 2, all the lights in the gym went out and a couple dozen of us were left in complete pitch blackness. Turns out we were way behind schedule and the gym was ready to close, so that was that. They couldn't get more than one measly light back on so they decided to call it a tie. What kind of project management skills do these HBS students have anyway? They also had forgotten to schedule refs for the playoffs and were begging some of us to stay.

There's a lot more of you S.F. folks (and even some of you more local people) that haven't come out yet...we're waiting with open arms, a porch light on, spare beds, and good times!