Survived the Weekend
August 03, 2026 by Adam in Family
There were some good things and rough things about the last few days. I headed out with mom to the farm house on Friday and had a walkthrough with Matt from HiLine. The porch is being built, so getting in is tricky and mom stayed in the car. I went around and took pictures of things and got the list of remaining items. The biggie is painting, as the painters have apparently vanished but hopefully Seraph can get in touch. I had my ai agents make a farm project website to help keep track of things.
Since no one else was doing it, I went out Saturday morning to clean up the site. There were a ton of cardboard boxes I broke down and lay out in the trailer. I swept and vaccuumed and picked up the other trash, adding a second layer to the trailer. We'll need to have a full cleaning of the house as things like the bathtubs are filthy.
I'd been fighting a headache all morning but by the time I got home I was feeling really bad. Jo needed a pickup from the train station, coming back from a Portland event. After that I crawled into bed and alternated between unconscous and taking pain killers. I felt more human by the evening, as long as I wore sunglasses to handle the light sensitivity. I suppose I looked pretty cool.
Sunday I was pretty low key. I painted some minis and played with different AI games. Jo helped buy and schedule farm house appliances. I managed to unhook the trailer but not much else of a practical nature. Jo prepped and power washed the front porch. That afternoon we headed to Jerry's to pick up some primer and concrete patch goop, running into mom along the way.
On the way back we decided to check out the porch concerts that were going on all weekend. We headed to the Whit and wandered into someone's backyard to listen to some very cool "depressed folk", stopped by Tacovore for dinner, then walked to another house where we missed the "sing-along folk" but listened to the "piano folk" for a time. We ran into Angie while I was there, who was there with her husband and enjoying the festivities. Eventually we wandered home where Jo worked on patching the porch while I took it easy some more.
Now it's off to work in a few minutes. I'm still feeling a little achy and will likely try to take it easy. I'm going to take Friday off, just for my mental health. I might have to take more time off depending on what happens to the painters at the farm house. I try to keep telling myself that we're almost at the end.
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