Time warp, ran
After work last night I met up with Ali over at Sugden Park, one of my favorite places to run. We are in the middle of a beautiful stretch of weather right now which added to the experience. We did some interval work where you run slower and the faster for a period of time. I am a good training partner for this type of work for Ali since I can run slightly faster. Ali did a good job during the speed miles, running one of them in under a 9 minute mile pace.
Right after we got done I heard my phone ringing in the truck. It was our sales guy from Rhinoshield, he said an issue came up. “Oh no” I thought to myself, let me guess, he is going to try to come back at me with a higher price or something.
Well it wasn’t anything like that at all. The problem was he didn’t realize that they had a large commercial job scheduled to be done next week when our house was supposed to be painted. He said however that they could actually start on our house THIS Wednesday. I quickly conferred with Ali to see if we could make that work. It seemed like we could so I said sure, let’s start Wednesday.
So now all of a sudden the paint prep that I planned to do either later in the week or this upcoming weekend had to be done NOW since Tuesday night I wasn’t going to be home. So as soon as I got home it was immediately into haul ass mode, thank goodness the clocks changed to give me an additional hour of sunlight.
I headed out on to the lanai and removed everything from the area to be painted. I removed the big nasty tv holder that was on the wall, hoses on the sides of the house, the two rain barrels, trash cans, etc… The rain barrels were gross inside, both covered with some variety of black slime. I plan to give both of them a thorough cleaning before they are put back into service.
The plan is the crew arrives Wednesday to do the exterior cleaning and then prep and painting should be finished up by Saturday. It’s cool that it is happening that soon. I wish I would be around during the day so I could watch and document the process some more.
Can you imagine going through a 9.0 earthquake, a horrible tsunami and THEN having to worry about being microwaved by a runaway nuclear power plant? Wow. But, if anyone can handle it, it’s the Japanese. They are as tireless and resilient as they come.