Goodness... it's no fun being sick.  After not really feeling 100% for almost two weeks, I can tell you that it's good to be back.  Just not feeling sick at all makes me almost giddy... but I'm really more jocular than giddy.  Yeah, that's it.

I have been working on my house for awhile now, and it's coming along nicely, thank you very much.  I have decided to kick things into high gear, since I'd like to have a few people over for Wurstfest, so that means lots of trips to the Home Depot.

Goddamn paint.  I am someone who can go into overwhelm easily.  Baskin Robbin's 31 flavors can cause me to go into a panic attack, so you can imagine what sixty-five thousand colors will do to me.  It's not been pretty.

So I just decided that I was going to go in and choose a color.  I had at least narrowed it down to a sagey-greenish-grey hue.  The problem is that a sagey-greenish-grey isn't specific enough.  They had shades and nuances of sagey-greenish-grey.  Some were more greyish-sagey-green, and others were greenish-greyish-sage... it's enough to make Martha Stewart go into overload.  But she has a staff to pick colors for her, and I didn't.

So I settled on a color, and gave it to the woofy man who mixes the paint.  Yeah baby... I'll help you shake that paint up REAL good...

Ahem.  Sorry.  So I got the paint mixed and paid for it.  Of course, as soon as I got to the car, I hated the shade I picked.  I'm not painting until probably this weekend, so we'll see if it grows on me, or makes me ill.  I'm hoping for the grows on me thing, but we'll see.

In other news, I've got new-car-fever really badly right now.  My Volvo is still cool, but it's SERIOUSLY getting quirky, and not in a good way, so I'm thinking I'll have a new car sooner rather than later.  Of course, if you know me in real life, you've heard me mutter on and on about a hybrid, but the hybrid SUVs aren't coming out until probably a year from now (the Ford Escape Hybrid has been delayed again) and I can't wait that long.  So you'll be hearing me prattle on about cars here for a bit.  Fair warning.

If you don't want to mess with color variations at Homo Depot then go to Restoration Hardware. They have THE BEST shade of sage green paint.

My mother drove a Volvo so long that if a window had broken, the insurance company would have totalled it. No kidding.

Awww - Tim the tool.... err , uhm I mean Tim, hope you feel better. You know, there is something to be said about being called the " TOOLMAN " lol. Worse names could be thrown about, take the "rep" that goes with it and run !!!

Look at the hybrids again. Drove one over the weekend. Still the coolest cars.

Tim Bratcher,

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