Painters are coming in to do the walls of our new place. To assist them, all our stuff, half unpacked, has been glommed into islands in the middles of rooms. And we've escaped in a rental car to an Airbnb in Montclair, NJ. Montclair's very pretty (it was one of the places people recommended we look at) and trains to NYC are convenient. In the next days I'll get a taste of the commuting life which might have been mine!