Gettin' There...

Evidently, it's been over two months since my last post which doesn't exactly jive with my mission of the blog forcing some kind of accountability on my modeling... BUT, I have been making progress.  The days and weeks following my last post have been fraught with turmoil - touched off by a surprisingly violent exchange between myself and my Wagner paint sprayer.

I don't drywall for a living, nor do I paint for a living, which might have something to do with why priming my walls was such a process er... failure.  I know the 5 gallon bucket of Sheetrock brand "First Coat" says you can thin it, and I took it all the way down to the thinnest I could by the time it was over, to no avail.  My sprayer (a pretty decent sprayer, not a cheap one - which I've used with success with other paints before) would not push the stuff through the filter in the spray handle no matter how hard I tried.

It was an unmitigated disaster.

I cussed so much in the span of those few days that I have likely secured a 12th floor suite in Hell.  I threw tantrums like a 5 year old in a grocery store - I just want to paint a wall.... Just paint a mother-loving wall so I can move forward with this hobby that is so relaxing to me... the hobby that was threatening to push a blood vessel out through my forehead.

So eventually I caved.  I just roll-painted the darned thing over the course of six hours and got it done.  The paint sprayer didn't survive, but I did - though I will carry the emotional scars with me for all of my days.

In addition to the priming being complete I've also been moving forward with some other not-so-interesting but essential projects around the house to prepare us for the arrival of our second child coming in the spring.  Another son, to whom I will pass down the art of lofting non-functional tools into the yard, like my father before me.

-Ryan