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Slowly, but I did help friends move all of their belongings today, the second
\nsuch lent hand in recent weeks.  I like to think of it as good exercise,
\nexhilarating<\/strike> advilarating. The humidity in Central New York:
\nhot air pudding!  Today’s three shirts tell of two day-themes: pourousness
\nand sweat.  We loaded the Penske here in Syracuse this morning, then
\nunloaded it in Ithaca in the heat of the day.  Quite a book collection
\nthey’ve got.  <\/p>\n

Because they were re-using boxes from a previous move, I was keying on the
\nbox label mix-n-mismatch.  The "Misc.
\nStuff" tags had me wondering just how miscellaneous the books inside were. 
\nAnd to stack the hand-truck with three boxes:  Top (labeled): video tapes.
\nMiddle: (labeled): super heavy. Bottom (labeled): Books (theory).  Remember
\nI was hotter than the searing red lava-stuff of lower hell, and so I was
\nsurviving the day on bemusing hallucinations about box contents.  Wonder
\nwhat’s in here?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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