Exostra: June 31 - July 7, 2007

Remember that tiny crack in my ceiling due to a spilled bucket? Well, when I returned the next day to inspect the damage it appeared that Noah and his Flood had visited, as the hole in my ceiling was now about 100 times larger.

Clearly something would have to be done about that. Something future Proteinstar could worry about.

My Electrician buddy stopped by and helped my remove unsightly and dangerous outlets from where my bathtub was supposed to go. Helped me string my wiring up so that I could access it from my attic crawl space and generally taught me about the dangers of combining 12 and 14 wires, why aluminium wires is so 1970's and the thrill of racing at 40.

Those wires will later be put back within the confines of the crawl space but for now they're easy access.

Well after giving the bathroom some attention I decided to go back to the kitchen.

I started by removing the ceiling fan, I actually want to keep something in this house if you can believe it.

I then carefully selected a tool capable of inflicting a massive amount of destructive power upon centuries old plaster.

I wasn't long until the room was filled with tremendous clouds of plaster dust. Thank goodness I had an 98 cent mask over my face. I know that dime store wonder was certainly keeping all that lead paint and asbestos out of my lungs. HACK! KOFF!

Actually the coughing fits have gotten much better, and there's no more blood in my phlegm.

Well the clean up went quick with Rover helping out.

Behold my glorious bare ceiling! Of which only two pieces of lathe suffered any termite damage. My Wonderbar took care of those two defiled pieces of lumber.

At around 3pm the Haitian Sensation showed up and with the help of a massive Drywall Lift borrowed from the Nostromo we put the new ceiling up in 3 hours.