In case there was any ever doubt, I‘ve now established that I’m officially a nerd, as I sit around constructing my LEGO grand piano while listening to Merriam-Webster podcasts of Word Matters, which is described as being for “anyone who ever loved their English class”, which, actually, I didn’t. Yet here I am.

This current construction project almost stopped before it started, the box containing the pieces weighing in at somewhere between 13 and 250 pounds, but, with the help of an online weightlifting video, I executed my best clean and jerk, sans the jerk (but not the geek), and lifted the container off the ground without adding to my current list of 12 chronic injuries.

After surveying the 3662 pieces, I flew through the instructions until number 110 (out of 840), when I reached a roadblock that may require a phone call to LEGO headquarters in Denmark, and most definitely was an excuse for diverting my current attention to less geeky endeavors, like writing a blog about putting together a LEGO grand piano.