"The problem with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate it." - Franklin P. Jones

Today's project was the master bath. OK, it's the only bath, but it makes me feel better to call it that.
I didn't expect to finish, but I expected to get further than I did.
The first step was getting things out - the nasty glass shower doors, the mismatched towel bars, a bad mirror, and a totally weird toilet paper holder. With the shower doors gone I could see how gross the porcelain tub was so I spent the next hour-plus going over it with a pumice stone, and it cleaned up pretty nicely.

In addition to not being a neat freak (cf. the shower doors and the tub) a prior owner lacked decorating sense and skill. Half the room still had the original dark paneling and the other half had been painted a blech pink with flat paint. I put a primer/stain blocker over the paneling and then painted the whole room with an off-white in the semi-gloss that's correct for a bathroom. Alas, it's going to take a second coat. I removed the old stained caulk around the tub and replaced it with new white caulk, and then tried to put up the curved shower rod we bought two days ago.
Oops.
I didn't know that old mobile homes have smaller tub/shower units than standard, and the curved rod doesn't fit by 3". I could drill a new stop hole in the rod IF I knew where my drill bits are. Because I don't we can't shower until a) I find them, b) I buy a new bit in the correct size, or c) we get the right size rod. So, lots of deodorant before church tomorrow!

I should finish the bathroom tomorrow afternoon. I'll get the shower rod issue figured out, get a second coat of paint on the walls, put in a 3-wide medicine cabinet, install new matching towel rods, and swap out the switch and outlet with contemporary versions. Eventually I'll replace the vanity and put new flooring down, but this will do for now and make it feel like a clean, more up-to-date space.

Tomorrow we'll go back to the Evangelical Free church that we visited once when we were here this summer. It's a 3-year old plant and pretty small. I'm not sure it's going to work but it warrants a second visit. For a small church they weren't particularly friendly - only the pastor and his wife talked to us - and they actually start their service 40 minutes after the 10 a.m. time their web site lists. They spend the first half hour or more standing around talking to each other (but not the visitors).
All of that said, they're coming from a good place theologically, I'm sympathetic with the struggles of starting a new church, and we were there in the middle of the summer when any church is going to be off its game. So we'll go expecting a different and more positive experience and I'll do my best to keep my former profession under wraps. I successfully avoided answering the pastor's question last time and hope to do the same tomorrow.

Now it's bedtime. Another long day with more visible progress.
Last Sunday we were driving up the central CA valley and it felt wrong to not be in church, so however tomorrow morning goes it will be good to spend time focusing on the vertical. It anchors the week.
Now, can I find my Bible??