Slacker, pt. 1 — MIL

As I'm sure you all know, my mother in law is here. And she's doing great stuff for us and the house. She's spending huge long hours in the kid's room working on demo, sheetrock, mud, and paint. She scrubbed all the walls with bleach water (and filled the entire top of the house with chlorine fumes last night - EVACUATION!). She's taken us shopping for all sorts of tools and supplies at three different hardware stores and two lumberyards. She's been the engine driving this project.

And all this has kept me driving the three-and-a-half of us around town and making decisions and lugging heavy stuff in the house, then out; up the stairs, then back down again. Which is good, because then we can progress forward. But is bad because it keeps me from all my important engagements with the rest of the world.

You know how those engagements pile up when you're out of work...