I woke up around 7:30 this morning, which was probably about 30 minutes too early. I was almost immediately greeted with a text message from my dad. How did he know? Anyway, he wanted to come over. My balance is still not great, so climbing up on ladders isn't something I should be doing, and he was insistent that if my gutters weren't cleaned right away, that my home itself would be at peril. So I told him to come on over. As I said, I'm not one for ladders yet, so he would go up the ladder and scoop out the gutters, and then rinse them with the hose. I would do the rest, cleaning up the ground below him, getting things out of his way, moving the ladder, getting the hose ready, etc. It went fairly quickly as it's been dry out. I appreciate the help, but being nearly half his age, it makes me feel a bit worthless, despite everything going on right now.
While he was here, I mentioned that I wanted to move my TV. I had put my LG C1 in the basement and set up my consoles and what not down there over a year ago, but I don't like being down there now. It feels too disconnected now that I can't hear sounds from upstairs. He agreed to help while he was there, but since I hadn't unplugged a single cable yet, we agreed that he'd come back in an hour or so. I unhooked everything, took the old TV off the wall and ran all the HDMI cables for the new setup through the way. I texted him to come back, and my god. Between my balance, me getting weaker over the past year from all the… everything, and my undying fear that I will split the C1 in two, just getting it up the stairs was an exercise in patience. I thought I was going to have a panic attack and fall down backwards on top of him by the time we reached the top. We got it upstairs though, and put it on the wall. I gave him my electric piano to take home to my mom, and said goodbye.
It took me hours to get all the cables hooked back up, and I still left one off. The TV is up though, everything is plugged in. The apps are signed in to. It's all good, just took way took much effort on my part compared to just a year ago. I did get this cool metal Metroid box cover in the mail from Nintendo today, so not everything was a struggle!