"The doer alone learneth." - Friedrich Nietsche

If you put goldfish in a bowl and set it on a turntable would they:

1. swim forward to stay in the same place?
2. Stay in the same place and rotate with the fishbowl?
3. Get dizzy?
4. puke? 

I was at Starbucks a little before 6 a.m. and noticed a guy who obviously worked for a pest control company spraying around the outside of the place. I've got a live-and-let-live attitude with most bugs; they're part of nature and I'm a fan of nature. However, I don't have any problem with pest control, and understand it's a necessary part of running any food establishment. One cockroach can be a PR nightmare for a restaurant.

Because I was sitting next to the window I got a front row seat to the effectiveness of whatever he was spraying. No cockroaches, but a lot of crickets emerged from their hiding places and stumbled about. And he knew to expect it because he was there a few minutes later picking up all the recently deceased. 

After going over Sunday's stuff I worked on my preaching calendar. Christmas sermons. 

Heavy sigh. 

I came home and got immediately to work getting ready for tomorrow's major project - spraying three coats of primer on almost all the truck body parts. 

I'm whooped.

But the garage walls and everything on them/up against them is/are covered with plastic, the floor is covered with painter's paper, and everything I need for spraying is set up and ready to go. Sunrise is 6:30 and I'll be spraying shortly after that. Temps in the upper 60's, and rising to the mid-80's by noon, by which time I hope to be done. 

I have to spray the cab in the driveway because I made the dolly on which it sits tall enough that I can't spray the cab's roof inside the garage. I'll have to use my ladder outside. Pam's going to stand with the hose and keep the cement wet so any overspray doesn't stick. 

This makes me nervous. The primer has a pot life of 25 minutes, which means that from the time I mix the primer and activator together I have 25 minutes to spray it before it sets up inside the gun. Read: ruined gun. The epoxy sealer that went on as the first layer had a pot life of 15 minutes, and that was downright scary! The fill coat had a 20 minute pot life.

That last spraying effort was months ago and I feel like a complete newbie again. Hopefully it will all come back to me before I've messed up too much. At $100 a gallon I don't want to waste this stuff. 

I used to naively think that the executive branch and the legislative branch were overtly political, and the judiciary was like a wise elder - impartial and committed to objectivity in interpreting the constitutionality of what the other two did. 

Yeah, that was pretty dumb of me, huh? 

Microsoft CEO Nadella wants to reboot. Somebody should tell him he has to hit the Start key. 

And I can't believe that a guy who heads one of the largest technology companies in the world believes in karma. 

K'mon. 

I don't see myself making it to 8:30.