Where Are My Teeth?

The Things We Think About

For a little while when you start working, Parker's Perfect makes it almost as hard to see through your goggles and glasses as if you hadn't applied any anti-fog solution at all. Until you've built up enough moisture in the enclosed space just before your eyes, the surfactant catches only a speckled film of droplets. It's like looking through a very personal drizzle.

Then, of course, the view clears and you get to see what crappy work you were doing when you couldn't see.

Thinking about trivia like that was a good way for me to keep my mind occupied while I was sanding the new sheetrock inside the closet this morning (with the door closed to keep the cat out and the dust in). Pondering the fact that sanded joint compound is far smoother than the paper surface of the gypsum board kept down the internal voice that would otherwise have been shouting, "Hey! It's almost 100 degrees in here, and between the shopvac and the power sander you're going to go deaf even with those earplugs" or "If I fell off the step-stool and hit my head I wonder whether Julie would hear anything".

Or "You missed a spot."

Anyway, that's done, and better yet, the 80-degree air in my office feels positively cool.

Posted by wallich at August 29, 2004 02:12 PM