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… and doing the Living Room floor requires the effort … and time … and …

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Well, yes, I do have all the time in the world right now, but …

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OK, yes, I understand that worthy things take effort, but you see …

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No, I am not averse to having worthy things, but …

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I understand that it will take some effort. You’ve got me there, but …

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But I’ve already done a great deal of effort. I mean, half the room was covered in cheesy foot square tiles. And I pried them all up, and …

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Well, yes, Linda did help with some of them, but …

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Yes, I am glad that Linda is my friend. But the floor …

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My point exactly! The room is twelve by twenty and half of that had that old used up carpet that …

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Well yes, My Friend Ann did get that carpet up single-handedly, and …

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Well, of course I am grateful to have Ann as a friend …

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Yes, I realize that none of this might have happened had she not suggested …

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But the floor now needs scraped and sanded and sealed and …

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Yes, I suppose it will make me very happy when it is all done …

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Yes, that should make for a nice little blog entry at that point and …

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Well, of course I will include pictures when it is done, but …

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No, actually I sat on the floor with a little $8 scraper tool and scraped up a whole batch of black gunk on the floor, and ….

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Oh, I don’t know … about 4 feet by 6 feet or so. Why?

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Yes, I understand that is only like 24 square feet … and that the room is like 240 square feet.

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Well, actually that is why I called on you.

I have two words for this project right now.

Belt. Sander.

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Yes it should make things a whole lot easier for me … and I just went to my home away from home these days … Lowe’s … and got one.

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No, I don’t suppose I will have the floor done by tomorrow.

But it will be great when I do get done!!!

Disclaimer:  No empty chairs were harmed in the making of this blog entry … or in the hypothetical conversation between me and my highly critical inner voice.

Any resemblance between this conversation and any you may have had with one of your parents is purely coincidental.