Ocean Blvd's Last Meetup: tomorrow I'm trying one more yard sale to liquidate my assets, then everyone is invited to party in/around/atop my apt. Thank you so much to everyone who saved my bacon today.

Thank you so much, neighbors! Saturday's sale went off shockingly well, it even ended up being quite fun. I still have a lot of stuff, so I'm doing one more yard sale and then a parteh.

I'll be pretty tired from two big events in a row, so it'll be pretty laid-back and the booze won't be copious, but I will make sure everyone can get a beer or two. The sale went well today even though there's a lot of leftover inventory - I'm going to be okay, financially, I think, and can certainly afford to grab a couple cases of beer if tomorrow goes half as well as today did.

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Saturday Recap/Update

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Today was so awesome. I've got that pleasant feeling, fatigue, and sunburn combo that would normally be associated with a good summer camp. From midnight to ~6 am, my panic and sense of dread mounted, then was all dispelled when Heterokaryon texted me that he was already awake and ready to help me set up! I tried to shower him with breakfasts and coffee, but he doesn't do the breakfast thing.

After overthinking things for a bit, we got started moving everything out and put up signs. Little Bro ran up and down the stairs grabbing last-minute additions to the sale pile, or watched the yard while I did the same.

A couple hours later, our number increased by half again as a local acquaintanceish/friendish fella I know rolled out of bed and decided to impose order and math on our haphazard array of trinkets and gewgaws. I mostly recruited him because he's in shape and often bored... as a person, I know him for his hobbies and interests, but his job, unbeknownst to me, apparently involves Marketing and Sales. He applied that knowledge to us, over the course of the day, and it was Good.

Close on his heels was another fellow redditor, not sure whether I have permission to mention his name, but with him we had enough doodz to keep an eye on all the merch as well as bring a bunch more crap downstairs. I think he's helping out tomorrow too, so I'm pretty much not panicking at all this time around!

• We took a group photo: http://i.imgur.com/iO6Po.jpg

We chilled, conversated, and chin wagged during a major lunchtime lull of customers, and then the redditors had to go take care of their other plans. You know, the ones they actually planned in advance, not the ones they jumped into on less than 24 hours' notice to help a total stranger.

Just in time for the previous Redditors' departure, a couple of performing-arts-type Redditors popped up and did strange things to each other.

• PICS or it didn't happen: https://imgur.com/a/ppRRf

You may have noticed they also hung me off my balcony. They are cruel and strange.

I have never really seen myself from the side... I notice my moustache may be out of control. I've curtailed its activities as of this evening, lest someone get hurt.

They wandered off on trampo-stilts, after letting me try them on, probably in order to go do strange things to someone else. My RL buddy stuck around and I told him all these strangers were from Reddit, and Reddit is awesome. I think he'll be joining us here! ^.^ He also helped me pack all my stuff into the garage.

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Tomorrow's Plans (i.e., today, Sunday)

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1. Wake up.
2. Drag furniture out to yard. I'm pretty sure a couple people volunteered to help again tomorrow, but even if they don't all my stuff is downstairs now (thanks to you guys!, so I can probably handle it regardless.
3. From 8 am to 3 pm, sell more crap!
4. Wind down, try to foist my remaining stuff onto redditors or Salvation Army or whatever.
5. Put aloe vera on my now-even-worse-sunburns.
6. Buy beer!
7. Drink it!
8. Vacate the premises on Monday.

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Thanks

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Thanks Reddit, thanks r/longbeach , thanks William, thanks Traveling Circus Dubstep Buddies, thanks Alvin, and Kevin, and Melanie, and humanity in general.

I sorta took a perfectly-timed nap in despair and overwhelmedness yesterday evening... a couple times I debated giving up and just letting the landlord keep/auction my stuff. You guys really were the cavalry over the hill today, and I am in just a crazy good mood right now.

And now, to pass out really hard. If you have any questions, perhaps reading my previous post will answer them for you? If not, I'll see you in about 8 hours, Internet.

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TLDR SECTION

1. • the "Tomorrow's Plans" section has a good overview of what went down today.
2. • I still have a bunch of stuff. Much of it is now free. Come take my stuff!
3. • When the yard sale finished, we went out and had delicious food at Nile Cafe.
4. • Look at the pictures from yesterday's yard sale. They are awesome.