I’m finally finished, for various definitions of the term “finished”. I’ve got the bulk of the paper off my walls. It took all day, but I managed to get the remaining two walls done today.
I’m exhausted now. I could just fall over and not wake up until some time tomorrow afternoon. Unfortunately, I have some [...]

This has been a most excellent day. I managed to do an entire wall in about four hours instead of all weekend. I’d continue, but like last weekend I have plans later tonight so I’m going to clean up a bit and get ready to head out. I expect that tomorrow I’ll be able to [...]

This past Tuesday I volunteered at the Prison Book Program, currently located in the basement of the United First Parish Church in Quincy, MA. Prisoners from around the country send the program letters asking for books on various subjects. The volunteers read the letters and attempt to choose books that meet the prisoners’ criteria. Unfortunately, [...]

I very rarely run into people who are absolutely pathetic at basic math. Last night on the way to a volunteering engagement, I stopped by a coffee shop to get something to tide me over till the event ended. So my total comes to $3.14. I hand the cashier $20 and then I check my [...]

It took me an entire weekend to steam one wall. I was hoping to at least get half of the room done by end of day Sunday, but between the technical difficulties yesterday, my friends birthday party, and my being really tired all day today there wasn’t much of a chance to really get down [...]

I wish that I could go back in time and find the person who invented wallpaper and beat him/her with a crowbar.
I rented a wallpaper steamer and I was thought that, “I’ll get there when they open so I’ll have nearly all day to steam and scrape” and of course Murphy’s Law decided to show [...]