Monday

Today was our first day on the job. Our crew painted the 3 out of 4 rooms in a small neighborhood house. The exterior was complete with IN SOLE brick. The owner appeared to be about 60 years old and had little to comment on, even when we spilled paint on the main carpet of the house. The word traipse onto would more accurately depict the situation. We were using plastic drop cloths for the paint so walking into or out of a work area lead to serious difficulties.

I worked mostly in a room which appeared to be originally used for sound recording. It contained a PC which was a bit of a surprise among the particular atmosphere of the house..dust, stale cigarette smoke, and barely functional windows. We found some other... treasures.. in that particular room. That was the room which I primarily worked in. We painted the room pink with a coat of primer. We left the ceiling as it originally was, black paint with glitter and glowing stars. It looked quite nice by the time we were through.

The other group worked in a different small room and painted the walls a sea colored green. The overall effect was quite nice but we had to do a a lot of cleanup details. We spilled hundreds of drops of paint on the wood floor and managed to vigorously scrub most of it up with hot water and cloths. We did our best to restore the furniture arrangement in the two bedrooms and the kitchen areas to its orignal state, but the owners' neglected clutter was very overwhelming and tedious. The job basically took all day, and I spent most of it painting the pink sound room with Sirus and Darek. We barely spilled any paint and were marveled at due to our painting skills. Secretly, I think we just got lucky because we painted pink of Manila. Any painter knows that this is a fairly easy paint over combo.

Recently we found a surplus of air matresses so that should take some of the pressure off of my back during sleeping. Im going to go blow mine up and perhaps play some goofy game such as apples to apples.. and by goofy i mean quite fun and nice.