So yeah, I forgot if I mentioned it or not, but I rolled back to the Wednesday to Saturday shift to help some folks out at work (we’re dying on Thursdays and Saturdays). I’m just that nice a guy. But I’m also nostalgic for those three day off weekends.

But I’ve been meaning to turn around my sleep schedule a bit, and make sure I sleep and wake up within a reasonable amount of time (+/- 1-2 hours) so I don’t throw off my sleep schedule every weekend, like I used to.

Monday I had it down. Bolted up early, got a lot done, bed at 11 or so. 12? I forget.

Today, from a combination of being tired, pulled muscles and stuff I didn’t get up until noon. Oh well. I still might be able to pull of a return to a well-rested sleep schedule in preparation for the week IF I’M ASLEEP IN THE NEXT 4 MINUTES.

Oh, today we found out the difference between WALL PLASTER and JOINT COMPOUND.  Turns out, you don’t cover walls with wall plaster unless you want to make a lot of trips to Home Depot and become very, VERY frustrating. Rather you want to use Joint Compound when effectively re-plastering walls. This realization gave me a lot of experience in home repair, cost a bit, and gave me at least three new combinations of words that I cannot use in polite company.

The DIY trial continues. After we get the small bathroom done, we’re going to try to peel off the wallpaper in the upstairs bathroom, as it sucks (”Scottish Golfers of the 1800s” Wallpaper theme>. WTF?), but also because unlike this bathroom the upstairs bathroom’s wallpaper was hung properly, and will most likely easily come off. If it doesn’t, I’m going straight to the phone book.

It looks like, after doing research on several home subjects, things usually come down to this:

Small jobs in the $80-100 range? You’ll pay a lot for what you don’t know.

Larger jobs in the several hundred dollar range? You’ll pay about 50-60% more than buying the tools and stuff and doing it yourself.

When I think about the time and frustration involved, I can totally live with that.