Well.

Is anyone aware of any center-left consortia of SF authors who have served as advisors in this way?

Tree guy came by. He's going to try to save the cracked limb on the evergreen via cables and winching and such. His crew will clean up my lawn. Another guy will be coming by to look at the crabapples, which suffer from rust and need treatment. Add that to the new garage roof. And then there's the battery back-up sump pump and the new outdoor spigots, which I'd like to get done before Wiscon. I guess you could say it was a rough winter at chez Smith.

That's it for the year, OK? Nothing else.

UPDATE: But hey, thanks to Dr. Williams Lousia, 7.8 million dollars has been credited to my account, so we're good.