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The shared office drive was still down today, and the first attempt to restore it failed so I spent the day unable to do about 80-90% of my job. :(
Anyway, I answered some emails, responded to some inquiries, and worked through some of the paper filing I've been ignoring all summer, but overall it was a long and tedious day. There are few things more annoying than not being ABLE to do work when you are all geared up to tackle it.
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Tonight my mom called around 7:30, so I caught up with her and my dad for about 45 minutes. They are expecting their furniture to be delivered early this coming week, after which they've scheduled delivery of one of their two pods -- this is the big one with a bunch of furniture rather than the small one that's entirely books, because it's a bit counter-intuitive to unpack all your books before you have shelves to put them on. *wry*
Also my childhood house went on the market Wednesday morning and my parents are already close to accepting an offer as of this afternoon, so that's going well!
None of us live there anymore, so I am going to share the link for the walkthrough: http://www.sueadler.com/167GreenVillage. The furniture is not remotely like ours, but you can still get a general feel for the house.
(It is a FAR bigger house and yard than we needed, but it's literally four blocks from Drew University where my mom worked for decades; the property taxes are significantly lower than they should be for a lot that size because the yard has a weird shape that renders the back half legally unbuildable; and it was a serious fixer-upper. What you see in that walkthrough is thirty years of repairs and upgrades, and we never did get around to finishing the attic or basement.)
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In other news, Nick has discovered that physical labor like packing/unpacking and intensive gardening/yardwork helps with some of his symptoms -- or at least distracts him from them, whereas reading and writing just exacerbate the problems -- so he's been throwing himself into that kind of activity over the past month or two.
Anyway, I answered some emails, responded to some inquiries, and worked through some of the paper filing I've been ignoring all summer, but overall it was a long and tedious day. There are few things more annoying than not being ABLE to do work when you are all geared up to tackle it.
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Tonight my mom called around 7:30, so I caught up with her and my dad for about 45 minutes. They are expecting their furniture to be delivered early this coming week, after which they've scheduled delivery of one of their two pods -- this is the big one with a bunch of furniture rather than the small one that's entirely books, because it's a bit counter-intuitive to unpack all your books before you have shelves to put them on. *wry*
Also my childhood house went on the market Wednesday morning and my parents are already close to accepting an offer as of this afternoon, so that's going well!
None of us live there anymore, so I am going to share the link for the walkthrough: http://www.sueadler.com/167GreenVillage. The furniture is not remotely like ours, but you can still get a general feel for the house.
(It is a FAR bigger house and yard than we needed, but it's literally four blocks from Drew University where my mom worked for decades; the property taxes are significantly lower than they should be for a lot that size because the yard has a weird shape that renders the back half legally unbuildable; and it was a serious fixer-upper. What you see in that walkthrough is thirty years of repairs and upgrades, and we never did get around to finishing the attic or basement.)
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In other news, Nick has discovered that physical labor like packing/unpacking and intensive gardening/yardwork helps with some of his symptoms -- or at least distracts him from them, whereas reading and writing just exacerbate the problems -- so he's been throwing himself into that kind of activity over the past month or two.
