monday night, and all day

just got home at 10:45pm.

woke at 6:15 this morning, was out the door by 6:30. home depot to get tie-downs, large iced mocha, then over to TBM to drop off some of the newly editioned prints. headed around the corner to pick up an 18' box truck with a liftgate. north to a different rental place in skokie to get a pallet jack (not the size i reserved), then down towards screwball to get steve. phone calls to everyone to clarify times etc. pick up steve walking down irving park road, then to sonnenzimmer to collect nick butcher (8:45am). we took western all the way down to 43rd street, then looped around to find marty perez's storage unit near 39th and damen (9:30am). marty had some great old drafting tables and light tables for us, which we slowly loaded down the elevator and into the truck.

from marty's, we drove out to anders nilssen's place in humboldt park, where we met up with mat, and met ander's friend todd. anders is selling a beautiful old 'challenge' paper cutter, which weighs approx 2.5 fuxxin tons. i'll post photos later, when i have them. we rigged a system of haphazard 2x4s and good wishes to get this thing up into the truck, and eventually, after a couple hours, it worked. i'll spare you the details. the chance of disaster was high.

we dove very very carefully up to sonnenzimmer to pick up the other parts of this press, then to screwball to drop off steve's share of the drafting tables.

mat and nick went to hot doug's, while steve and i started the long slow drive north to TBM. we got there, and i backed into our little lot without even spilling the cutter. this was the hugest success of the day - i didn't tip the cutter over. it would have killed anyone underneath it, and would have probably torn a hole in the truck had it fallen while we were driving. steve and i moved some stuff around so the cutter would have a place to sit.

mat and nick arrived with a big bag of hot dogs. i got two chicken sausages with some spinach something, and some great mild cheese.

we were better equiped with more than enough wood, so the unloading of the truck went better than the loading. still very strenuous for my brain.

mat drove steve and nick home (3:30), and i took the truck out to des plaines to pick up that huge paper order from french paper. 900lbs. of paper. the loading dock guys at the shipping company were doing skids around corners in their forklifts.

got the paper, got gas, and drove back to TBM, where unloading wasn't really helped by the pallet jack, and i had to push the six 150lb boxes around barehanded, more or less. when i was done, i didn't have time to go home before dianoga practice, so i left the truck at TBM, walked to the rental place where i left my car, stopped by whole foods for some sushi, and picked jason up.arthur and clive amaze me every visit.

practice.

after practice i drove down to pilsen to meet up with former gallery owner J.L., who sort of disappeared early this year. he called me wanting to return a painting and some posters to me. he is going to brazil on wednesday, where he is getting married. i am a bit confused by this all, but wish him the best.

as i came back north on 90/94, it started to rain.