sara, I don't suppose you can roll it up and stick it in a closet after every session? Somewhere away from the cats? Seems like an awful lot of waste.

Aaaand I have a new voicemail greeting. It doesn't sound great since I had to record it from my speakers, but I hope it will do the trick.

How do I get it from my computer to my phone?

Ugh. It's 85 and humid inside my apartment and outside. And the power went off for about an hour.

I hope that wasn't my fault. Sitting on the deck is a huge relaxer for me, but even after 7 or so, it was still beastly hot, so I was sitting right in front of the screen door with the A/C inside going full blast.

It gets smeared with lead-painty goo, it is thin plastic and the effing masking tape adheres to everything when I pull it up. I toyed with just wiping up the paint debris, but it smeared everywhere. I don't want bits landing on my floors or elsewhere and stripping where I don't want. Short of doing it in one go, I am going to have to be wasteful (and frankly would be anyway with multiple applications with time in between.) Very least, I just cut pieces to cover the area I am working (and have bigger covers I use for stuff not under the peeling, but can pick stray bits off of.)

And really, I am creating all sorts of toxic yuck, even with this being an enviro-nice stripper (in neuters itself, but still, lead paint.)

Yeah, that sounds like quite a challenge. I wonder if Smonster has tips, since she does all of that NOLA rebuilding stuff.

sarameg, are you using this? [link]

How do I get it from my computer to my phone?

When the lady told me to record my greeting at the tone, I held the phone up to my computer speakers and played the message. It doesn't sound awesome, like I said. I don't know if there's a better way. Probably not for my low-tech phone, at least.

I am using [link] And it really is good. My neighbor has used it to restore vintage furniture and now her porch. I'm just impatient (tonight) or a lousy applicator (this weekend) or it it just fuckloads of paint with the stripper stalling latex tucked in there.

Really, I need to do small sections, multiple times, per night. And then to the sanding and shit.

Old Spice Man Likes BACON!

I feel as a techy God: My Firefox was bogging down horribly, I pulled out the Google-fu, found reference to about:config and the settings for pipelining, and, lo, my Firefox does cavort along happily now.

Welcome back to the States, zuisa!

Happy homecoming, msbelle and mac! Aw, mac is making me teary again.

The trick to eating Cap'n Crunch is to let it get all soggy first.

Ouise, hope your birthday was at least as good as mine was!