Physical labor

Will be away from the PC most of the day, and probably tomorrow, unless something breaks and requires me to do my job. I’ll be otherwise occupied doing physical labor helping getting prepared for next week’s event.

On the plus side, I don’t have to go to next week’s event so we’re talking 3 days of hanging around a mostly empty office building, getting work done on projects that are always more difficult when there’s more than 5 people in the building. 🙂

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