THURSDAY #7: And On The 7th Week, Tino Rested

Well, we're back for one last entry. Yeah, that's right, Pink's room is indeed "finished" and he has moved out of Thomas Mann Strasse and into Garten Strasse 8. Here's what the move looked like...

Pink says, "Choos, bitches of Thomas-Mann, I'm moving to Garten Strasse."

Walking up the front steps with all of Pink's Earthly possesions.

The key in the lock, not Pink's key, he doesn't have one yet.

Pink's excited, sort of, maybe, probably not. The final flight of stairs at the new apartment.

Unpacking in the new, finished room.

Tino proudly handing Pink his half set of keys to the apartment, still wearing dirty Argus gear as expected.

To celebrate, Lisa helped Pink and I move and grocery shop, then brought over her dog, Dina to help with the celebration.

Then Matt showed up and the party picked up...well, the drinking anyway even though he showed up empty handed (Lisa's fault...she promised a case of Pils then showed up with 6 Cola Weissens, aka Kinder beer).

Christening Pink's new room with drinking, smoking, and loitering.

And more of that.

A fitting end to this Blog because that's pretty much how I feel about this page about now.

When I asked Pink about his new room as he sat in it, he had this to say...

"i'm not sure i want to make a committment one way or the other, lets just say that i'm content at the moment...but its a little cold in here, it must be said."

Although Pink has a distinctive feeling that this isn't a one part saga, more of a trilogy, I disagree. Maybe we will see in 2 or 3 years. Who knows. Let's try it.

Thursday #6

Since all Tino's been able to accomplish since last Sunday was this...

and this...

...Pink, big suprise, still does not have a room to call his own which means this is not the last update of this blog which, frankly, I'm getting particularly bored of. Pink, after having had the luxury of a hotel room before our trip to Northern Africa, was demoted back to living room status. But as you all know, Korwin's abandoned Buehl due to a "serious" thumb injury and Pink is now squatting in his room while Tino finishes up. I'm giving it weeks now, as I've given up completely and just don't care anymore. Until next time, which might be never.

Sunday #5

You're right, I know, but I had good reason not to post on Wednesday...nothing had been done in the room. Tino was given a new "boss" on the weekend (who shall remain nameless) who was going to inspect his progress on Sunday evening. Needless to say, Tino was up all night Saturday and hard at work all day Sunday to get the room ready for inspection. And up until we left for vacation on Wednesday, he didn't step foot into that room again. Therefore, nothing to report.


So as we returned home from far off destinations, Pink joined me to check out the progress of his room. The anticipation was immense as we walked up the stairs to the apartment. After all we've seen in the past 4 days, this was close to the highlight of the weekend. When we arrived at the room, Tino and his new boss are hard at work and Tino says, "You're early!" So obviously, the room wasn't ready but it was pretty close. Here's what we saw...

No building materials on the landing...this was a good sign.

The entrance to the room...paint and a floor (one huge linoleum sheet of fake wood...classy).

This might be trouble...a nice draft was coming out of there...as well as some water (it was raining outside).

As you can see it's a split level, very nice. The window still leaks and is not so well insulated as the room was freezing.

Lovely new lamp and the bed frame that looks in need of some help...I' sure you noticed the mattress on the floor earlier, not really sure whats going on thereas Tino is not at the "ice hockay" game.

Desk, two colour paint job and some unfinished wiring/plumbing/I have no idea what.

The main entrance from the inside.

Pink will officially be moved in this Wednesday which means, sadly, the end of this blog (sniff, sniff). We'll post one last time on Thursday, a fitting end to a blog that started so very many Thursdays ago...

Saturday #4

Pink is in a hotel room!!
Pink is in a hotel room!!
I know, I know...this is BIG news. And he's also been promised his room by the time we get from our vacation next weekend. I actually believe the promise this time around, for many reasons which I won't get into here. So this strange and terrible journey/saga may well be over soon. We leave Wednesday for far off destinations and will be back Sunday...therefore, you can expect one more update Wednesday morning and another Sunday evening, and that may be it. I can tell you that Tino has been hard at work the last 2 days, but you'll have to wait for picture/video update 'cause I'm feeling lazy right now, plus I've had a few Heffe Weissens.
See ya Wednseday, kinder.

Thursday #4

Congratulations, Pink...you still don't have a room plus its the third week anniversary of the day Tino originally proclaimed the day the room would be complete. This would be the fourth or fifth time Pink's Room has been promised by a certain date that (was not /will not be) met because, seeing as tomorrow's Friday and the room still looks like this...

...I don't think he's gonna get that one night of sleep in there before the Freiburg game this Saturday.
This week, Tino informed me that his new work schedule (afternoons) is not good for working on the room, and that it is a bad thing for Pink. He gets home very late (midnight or 1 am) and is very tired and must sleep. He didn't mention the time in the morning before work which is probably set aside for log sawing. I did a quick check yesterday and half of one panel of drywall had been added to the ceiling.

So last night Tino came to me with a brilliant plan.
He said, "The problem with work is that I must wear a bandage and that does not let the cut (he cut his hand pretty badly last week if you didn't remember) close right. So tomorrow (this morning) I will go see a doctor and try to get the orange paper."
"Let me guess," I replied," that orange paper lets you to bail on work and you're gonna to spend the day working on Pink's Room?"
"That is my plan," said Tino with a grin.
Beautiful. Skip work to do work. So he worked on the room all day and when I got home tonight, I found an empty house. No Tino. I wander in the room and this is what I see...

Bucket of mud and Tino's workpants...I don't wanna to know.

A drywalled ceiling, a good sign.

Thr room is still a disaster. Notice the alarm clock on the desk...maybe this is the finished product. Pink, pack your shit and come on over. Also notice the light sitting in the shoebox. That used to be the main overhead light in Pink's Room. Now there is no light in the room which is why these pictures were all taken in night mode. Now Tino can't work after sundown...yet another delay.


The wall close to the door has also been drywalled. But notice the wall directly behind, not finished. The drywalling continues...

Notice the fine drywall work in the bottom corner of the room...I'm guessing we're gonna see a whole lotta mud in that area sometime soon, or maybe later.

That's about it as far as an update goes. I've added a day counter at the top right hand corner of the page counting the number of days Pink's been living in a living room so you can all feel very, very sorry for him.