Update:

I spent about a half hour on these tasks. Some stuff is in the basement. The kitchen is clean except for the floors and dishes. I have a good start on the DR. While putting stuff away in the DR, I found something I need to mail and decided to send an email asking if I could drop it off instead... which led to me checking my mail and spending another forty minutes being annoyed at one of the messages I'd received.

Back to work!