Staring at a blank page...
OK, so the plan is DIY in the morning and then a writing session in the afternoon.
The problem is that the DIY is so taxing that I'm working through part of the writing session and napping through the rest. Must work more efficiently and stop at 11:30 come hell or high water.
Spent the morning covering myself in sawdust when I resorted to a palm sander after a miserable and pungent hour wrestling with chemical paint stripper. There HAS to be a better way to take paint off wood. What I really want to know is what yutz thought it necessary to coat a perfectly lovely oak staircase in some sort of thick texturizing paint before carpeting over it anyway? Zarking Fardwarks! Poor woodwork.
Spent yesterday morning covering myself in wood stain and picking flying insects off the woodwork drying in our garage.
On the plus side - this quick-drying stain/polyurethane combo is Fabulous and not nearly as smelly as it could have been.
And, of course I get to work on my memorization of the complete radio broadcasts of Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Adams is THE perfect thing to occupy one's mind while locked in an epic struggle with paintbrushes and power tools.
Arthur Dent: "So we're not home and dry?"
Ford Prefect: "We couldn't even be said to be home and vigorously toweling ourselves off."
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Ford Prefect: "My doctor says I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre; and that I am, therefore, excused from saving universes."
The problem is that the DIY is so taxing that I'm working through part of the writing session and napping through the rest. Must work more efficiently and stop at 11:30 come hell or high water.
Spent the morning covering myself in sawdust when I resorted to a palm sander after a miserable and pungent hour wrestling with chemical paint stripper. There HAS to be a better way to take paint off wood. What I really want to know is what yutz thought it necessary to coat a perfectly lovely oak staircase in some sort of thick texturizing paint before carpeting over it anyway? Zarking Fardwarks! Poor woodwork.
Spent yesterday morning covering myself in wood stain and picking flying insects off the woodwork drying in our garage.
On the plus side - this quick-drying stain/polyurethane combo is Fabulous and not nearly as smelly as it could have been.
And, of course I get to work on my memorization of the complete radio broadcasts of Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Adams is THE perfect thing to occupy one's mind while locked in an epic struggle with paintbrushes and power tools.
Arthur Dent: "So we're not home and dry?"
Ford Prefect: "We couldn't even be said to be home and vigorously toweling ourselves off."
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Ford Prefect: "My doctor says I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre; and that I am, therefore, excused from saving universes."