More paint!

The guys building the kitchen finished yesterday, and the kitchen looks great! There was even enough wood left over to build a small pantry in an adjoining room. In fact, there are three full sheets of expensive plywood left over, along with a huge amount of extra molding. Galina is sure we'll be able to bring it back to the lumberyard down the road, but I have my doubts. Among other unplanned work, the guys also replaced two closet doors and redid the casing on the bathroom door. It's almost to the point where the inside of the house has been completely transformed.

I started using the one-coat-covers-all paint in the morning, but it became clear after a few minutes that the dark green, dark brown, and dark yellow colors that the former owners daubed onto the walls were going to require more than one coat, so we went and got a large container of latex primer. The stuff doesn't really pour out of the container, it oozes. And it sure does a good job of priming the wall, which I determined while finding out that I can put a coat of primer on the walls of three rooms in just over two hours, but various parts of me are going to ache for a while as a consequence.

Oh, but my forearms are killing me. And Galina says my face is sunburned, but I can't imagine how that happened.

The e-mail brings good news: I'll be supporting the operations planners again this week, translating the execute package (during the day, no less). Compared to the flight support that ended yesterday, it'll be a piece of cake.

I've done a little more work on my "commercial" Web site, but not much. Soon after putting down a first draft of a "feedback" page, Galina got itchy to go over to Pearland and start painting. The only page I've really got out there is my curriculum vitae, which summarizes my experience and qualifications. Left to do are:

• a FAQ;
  
• a news page;
  
• a glossary page;
  
• a page featuring some software solutions to problems;
  
• a page for feedback (which I've been working on)

I see the FAQ as a page that provides some marketing spin and demonstrates some expertise on my part. Expertise is also behind the software page. The news and glossary pages are going to provide some 'stickiness' to the site - a reason for people to return again and again, or at least to bookmark the page.

Getting back to the events of the day, after helping me to clean up after the crew that was here yesterday, Galina went to pick up Lee, whom we haven't seen in over a month, and we came back and had an old fashioned spaghetti-and-homemade-meat-sauce dinner.

As I expected, Lee immediately sat down at the computer in the next room and, I imagine, picked back up where she left off when her mom picked her up.

It's The X Files in a little bit, which will be a nice pause in an otherwise hectic weekend. Then, it'll be an early bedtime so as to be on the bounce tomorrow first thing; I have to put together an invoice for the past couple of weeks, and get it in to the office in the morning.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love submitting invoices? <grin>

(And how much I've begun to hate painting? Typing is difficult. Time to stop for the night and relax.)

Cheers...