First off: Condolences on the shingles. I only had a "mild" case and it was bad enough
Short Form: Today I am doing some clean-up and reorganizing. I have a goal/need to get things done by Monday and really I don't have that much, just need to go downstairs and deal with things. I've been looking for a couple of months for a missing quilt book and some paper pieced diagrams I drew out and finally found them today! Hooray, I have a project I really do want to work on and I can now move forward. The book is still missing but what I really needed were the diagrams and I figured they would be together.
The long form: I bought a used non-computerized long arm almost 2 years ago and this was when my vision really started to fail... spent basically the year legally blind and unable to do much sewing and it didn't get set up. Now almost another year has gone by without the machine up but on Monday a little old lady quilting friend is going to come over and help me put the legs on the stand. The real issue is the frame is VERY heavy, is all solid welded steel and has hydraulic lifts for height. Because of the weight, attaching the legs is really a help with two people. She is pretty handy with a screw driver and I think we will also be attaching the hydraulic lift stuff too.
There is no way the two of us can pick the thing up or even the hubby and I, but I'll have the husband contact the nice young health club going neighbor and his roommate to see if they can come over for 5 minutes of pick up and flip. With the 3 guys (including hubby) and me, it should be pretty easy and can maybe be done on an evening next week. Once it is flipped upright hubby and I can get the bars up, and the head on the stand.
My husband is not super mechanically handy and we don't always work well together -- but we know this in advance. Sometimes we do better than others and we have to hope/plan on good days and timing and nothing else going wrong or being more interesting. But getting this up and going has been on both our minds. LOL I really want to get some of my tops out of the bin.