So I went to bed at 10:45 last night thinking that I would sleep in until about 9:00 or 10:00. Alas, no, I was wide awake at 6:40 this morning and after my coughing fit, couldn't get back to sleep. My ear drum is still popped, but it's now making some crunching sounds when I swallow—which is progress, I think. Anyhow, after a shower and breakfast I decided it was too early to do laundry, so I started putting the masking tape up in preparation for painting the living/entertainment room. My digital camera was handy, so I snapped a couple photos in process.
| Here's what it looked like after I taped it up. | ![[image: entertainment room, pre-paint]](http://www.execnet.net/users/alan/blogs/archives/alanskew/P1010004.jpg) |
![[image: another view of entertainment room, pre-paint]](http://www.execnet.net/users/alan/blogs/archives/alanskew/P1010005.jpg) |
| Here's a shot of the Pepto-Bismol pink colored primer. Since I'm painting the room a deep red, the guy at Home Depot said I needed to prime the walls with a tinted primer so the red would only require two or three coats, instead of six or seven if I were painting directly on white. |  |
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| Here's the final color after the first of what looks like will have to be three coats. It's called Sweet Spiceberry. I'll put a third coat on tomorrow to cover the last of the light spots. |  |
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And yes, I'll probably have to repaint it twelve coats of some neutral, earth tone color before I move out.
