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"If only we had vaccines against hysteria and hyperbole." -- Frank Bruni, 2015-07-04

[crossposted to Facebook]

Short version: anyone available to help at my house in Baltimore, mostly carrying medium-to-heavy things, tomorrow ("today" by the time many of you read this), Saturday, or Sunday?

Checking in with an update on my house: progress continues; waiting for estimate from roofer who came out Monday, still looking for somebody to repair the brick back wall of the basement. Clearing out the living room to have one big space to unload the storage trailer into is still, I think, several days with a helper or two, maybe a couple of days with more helpers. (Keith, can you sanity-check my impression?) Going to be up there tomorrow afternoon with Keith, and probably one day of the weekend. If anyone is available to help out Saturday or Sunday, I'll be there whichever day I have help. I also still need to put jacks in the basement before stacking all my books in the living room.

Doing every other day last week really cost me physically, even letting others do most of the muscle-work. I can make up,some of that with extra painkillers, but not enough to really step up the pace myself.

There's still a bunch of things I need help with other than carrying things up stairs, some more urgent than others, a few that can be done anytime between now and when the weather gets uncomfortably cold this fall/winter. And also some need-skills-more-than-muscles things which aren't absolutely needed to make the house livable but would make it much more comfortable.

(I gotta figure out what I can still do enough of to pay back or pay forward the help I've been getting and the help I'm asking for.)

Anyone available to help out either Saturday or Sunday? (Or tomorrow?)