Tuesday, 18 May 2004
Crawled out of bed around 6am. Read some mail, then tortured myself for a while on the exercise bike. Showered, forgot to shave, and was off to work.
Had one of those "crap, all I did was talk to people" sort of days. Mail in the morning, interspersed with attempts to get things done, but post-lunch, it was talk talk talk, either one on one or in a meeting.
Left around 5pm, home around 6pm, and dove right back into the paint. Second coat of the grey went on nice, and I think that will finish the top part of the walls off. The first coat of the red wasn't as nice -- the paint seems thinner, runnier, and it streaks like nobody business. I managed to create some (more) touch-up work for myself, one the one part when the grey and red colors abut, and I didn't reprime some spackled area, which promptly bled through the red. sigh On the schedule for tomorrow: repriming the spackled areas, followed by one or (more likely) two new coats on the bottom. At least I'll be able to mask the grey-red intersection and prevent that damage from getting any worse.
Wrapped up around 10:30pm, and pretty much went straight to bed, with a plan to get up ultra-early and get into work.