[Updates below.]

Pfft. The house has progressed beyond the horrid paint primer stage and past the bedroom painting stage and has moved into the wood laminate floor installation stage. Me, I'm ignorant of how these things are put in and set up, so roomie-to-be Cameron says adamantly the tongue-and-groove glueless flooring is easier to install than the...well, the kind that need to be glued.

He, his girlfriend, his father, another friend, and I spent last night proving the relative ease which Dupont's Real Touch Elite Walnut laminate flooring goes in. I'd rank it just below one-armed broadsword combat during mid-July in south Texas and just above really understanding reverse Polish notation. This was mostly due to the group's almost complete ignorance of the install process, of course, but with a tough old bastard and his miter saw, two chicks who love to fabricate and build things, a rough-and-tumble DIY ex-country boy, and a slowly recovering science geek, I expected more efficient operation.

Personally, I'd like to try the glue flooring to see what it's like, strictly for comparison purposes.

At least I'd get a buzz from the fumes...

Expect blogging to be light for the next few days until I get my computer gear out to the house and FINALLY hook it back up to broadband. When DSL is just $27 a month from SBC, you know I'll be all over that.

UPDATED 9/19/2005 9:53am
Soon to be added in: a freshly sanded and stained computer desk.