Flutterby™! : Lost my Ikea cherry

I've added a new category for notes on Coyote Grits, a little ways down the road I'll probably slap up a "diary of a startup" page. Since Coyote Grits is funded from our own shallow pockets, Todd and I are reluctant to outfit the new digs with the latest Herman Miller (warning, requires lots o' JavaScript) stuff, but we still want something that goes beyond folding tables. Todd's wife Danea is a construction manager, and when we were talking about furnishing the new digs she recommended Ikea. I'm impressed. For a little over $500 we outfitted the conference room with a table and 6 chairs, in birch. The chairs are solid wood, the table's got some veneer, which squicked us a little but if it holds up it's hard to tell. Except for one notch on one chair that wasn't drilled quite deep enough assembly was braindead, and the Allen wrenches they supplied even had the little ball swivel thingies machined on one end. We've still gotta run cable (I'm typing this on my laptop connected to my server/router dragged in from home connected to my Ricochet so we can test the wiring 'til we can get DSL) and do something about desks and bookshelves, but we can put those in as-needed. I think some of the Berkeley scrap yards are gonna get raided for server racks...