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As I cool down tonight, I'm working on the pitch to get my wife to go ahead and take me to the village after (or before) we give blood tomorrow, to lay in adequate supplies for my weekend.
She has heavy activity on Friday and Saturday both. She's gonna claim it won't be *that* heavy, and we can go to the village on Friday, and it will be fine.
NB: The activity is really cool. Someone connected some fellow to her. His wife had passed, and she had many *many* *MANY* art supplies. And could she maybe take them off his hands.
In fact, the woman in question was a hoarder. There were more art supplies than any one person could possibly use in three lifetimes.
So what to do? Wellllllll, let's get them all, and we'll have an art supply sale at the community center, and the community center and the gallery she's a volunteer at will split the proceeds.
She and a few volunteers have been collecting, sorting, and storing art supplies from this guy's house for two *months*.
Friday, they'll move it all to the venue. Saturday is the big sale.
They've notified every art teacher at every school level in a 20 mile radius. They've said that anyone who spends $50 can come back at 4pm and take whatever is left, at 5pm, anything else, at 6pm, two local "art supply thrift stores", a thing I never heard of, are coming to take everything else.
And, of course, the sale is open to the public as well. Mostly, it's arranged as a "bag day". Some tables are bag tables. You buy a bag, and you load it up with anything on a bag table.
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"Baby, I know you have a lot of volunteers on Friday, and even more on Saturday, and everything is going to go very very well, so your estimates on availability are most likely perfect.
"But, my great love, surely, in 76 years, you have noticed that your relationship to linear time is . . . complex.
"My darling, I propose merely that we avoid even the very long-odds *possibility* that something will come up, and I will be bereft of you, beer, cigarettes, potato chips, and whiskey."