It seems to be half way there so I have another five days+ of straight syncing of the entire wallet's blockchain to go.

You will find it goes a lot faster if you put the config folder into a memory-backed device when doing large syncs. On Linux I use a tmpfs device. I don't know what the equivalent would be on other operating systems.
I using a laptop and it is windows10.
So I do not know what you exactly mean by memory-back device.
If you mean by a external HD enclosure.
No. I am not using this.
It is all on my laptop.
But yes. I will join the slack channel as someone has described if this whole sync does not work after 10 days of running non stop.
Thanks to all for the help.
So the byteball community does give a hand of their fellow byteballers after all!

Good to know! And thank you fellow Dooglus

on the advice!