After I read that, I read this and laughed. A lot.

Thunderstorms rolling in. Gonna go set up on the roof and see if I can't shoot some lightning hitting the Con Ed plant.

vockins wrote:If the doggie day care is slaughtering your pet in a satanic ritual on camera, what the fuck are you going to do? Reach through the computer and beat the shit out of the priest?

Someone crown this fucker poet laureate of the internet already.

Holy crap, those Onion links led me to this one:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/va ... ll_sorting

The Onion wrote:The deities were all unanimous in agreeing that the sole Catholic fatality should be condemned to forever roam the Earth as an anguished, wretched ghost, as Catholicism is the only truly false religion and has no god to accept its faithful when they die.

G-Ddamn LOL!

I'm working my last day at work before tour. Tonight, I'll have delicious food with Mandroid and the room-mates and pack.

I'm very nervous about tour and I'm very sad to be away from my lady for so long. I'm freaking out here at work. I'm much more sad and stressed about this than excited.

Ben Adrian

B_M_L wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote: House = completely primed, ready to be caulked and painted.

Want to come over and help me prime mine?

I have the hallway, living room and kitchen still to do - plus fix skirting in half the livingroom - and repair plasterwork where the builder decided to accidentally punch a hole with a door frame he was removing.

All this... then caulking and painting.

My girlfriend has it in her head that the second top coat will be on & dried by Sunday evening. I really hope it is too - but it may mean very little sleep between now and then.

You're in the UK?

Hell, if there are chocolate Hobnobs and tea involved, I am there. I discovered these [biscuits/cookies] last time I was over on tour. Nothing on this side of the Atlantic compares.

The secret to painting (he said, drawing on his years of experience of doing it for a living) is getting your brushes and rollers clean at the end of the day. You need to get all the crap out of your brush when you're done so that you don't have dried paint in the wick of the brush, which is the part just below the stock and above the tips. If you get crap in there, it causes the tips to spread out and then the brush doesn't hold as much paint or spread it as smoothly, so you have to work a lot harder.

Same principle for the roller nap- if it's clean, it's fluffier and will hold more paint, meaning less trips back to the bucket.

At one point after I got divorced several years ago, I thought about taking my copious skills as a house painter and moving to the South of France and just living the existential life- painting for a living and spending many hours mooning about in cafés in my off time.

Then the whole EU work permit thing kind of got in the way....

I'm sending a check to Dow Jones for the renewal of some shit we get at my work that soem lawyer reads. I feel dirty.

An 82 year old man ran into my friend's parked truck, pushed it 100 feet into another parked car, then drove away. The police caught up to him 5 miles away.

I think his driving days are over.

dontfeartheringo wrote: You're in the UK?

Hell, if there are chocolate Hobnobs and tea involved, I am there. I discovered these [biscuits/cookies] last time I was over on tour. Nothing on this side of the Atlantic compares....

Yes - in London. And there are always tea and chocolate Hobnobs in the house!

I took a half day off work and did prep till about 10 last night. Every thing is go for the first coat of colour. I'm going to try and do the ceilings tonight. I still doubt I'll be done by Sunday though.

dontfeartheringo wrote:At one point after I got divorced several years ago, I thought about taking my copious skills as a house painter and moving to the South of France and just living the existential life- painting for a living and spending many hours mooning about in cafés in my off time.

Then the whole EU work permit thing kind of got in the way....

I used to be a landscape gardener - I have the same thoughts about jacking it in here, leaving for Spain, and just getting by on the work I can pick up. Luckly I have a passport that will work in the EU so it's still an option.

I have to go to Hooters later for works drinks.

I don't wish to sound like a whiney liberal, but Hooters pretty much represents everything I detest in this world. Plus the beer's shit.

One drink and I'm out of there. I'm depressed in advance.

simmo wrote:I have to go to Hooters later for works drinks.

I don't wish to sound like a whiney liberal, but Hooters pretty much represents everything I detest in this world. Plus the beer's shit.

One drink and I'm out of there. I'm depressed in advance.

This is a strip joint, right?