Recovering Baptist

Looks like my crew fell through for the night. It’s hard to want to help a friend when your baby’s sick. And my wife’s under the weather, too, so it looks like I’ll be working alone tonight. Oh well. Some progress is better than none, I guess.

To make the afternoon more fun, our two year old got ahold of a sharpie and started decorating my wife’s laptop. The dry erase trick (draw over the permanent marks with a dry erase marker) worked great on the screen, but it didn’t quite work on the case. That was cleaned with a combination of rubbing alcohol and WD-40. Note to self - hide all the markers once the new floor is installed!

OK, so only my project manager friends who happen to enjoy music will really get the headline joke. The point is that our kitchen project keeps growing. It all started with some floor tile and laminate countertops. Then it grew bit by bit. Now it looks like the plan to have the cabinets painted may change; instead, we’re thinking about stripping the paint off the cabinets and staining them ourselves.

So the bad news is that we’ve got more work to do. The good news is that this is going to be one hell of a kitchen when all is said and done.

The better news is that I’ve got some friends lined up to help out tonight. My dream of having a tiled kitchen by Sunday morning may become a reality.