Murphy's Law

As a "computer guy" I often stumble upon this life wisdom. I even had a professor that wrote his diisertation about it. Funny man. All student's loved his classes for he made good grading whatever the quality of the efford. Won't bring you forward in life but who cares anyway...
Back to the topic: Yesterday I did another round of painting. Again a room in pink for my older daughter. Bought a lot of stuff to make it better than the first room. I bought a drill machine and a paint mixer, more lightbulbs and a set of torx scredriver insets.

• The insets didn't match my variable screwdriver so I couldn't dismantle the fence to make life easier when carrying the furniture on saturday.
• The lightbulbs didn't match the lamp. Altough they were of the correct type (E27) in terms of the mount they didn't match because of the depth of the mount inside the lamp. Stupid thing.
• The perfectly mixed paint didn't last. With less than 2 squaremeters left I ran out of paint and had to mix a bit more. I'm almost sure the new mixture doesn't match the first one but I couldn't tell in the dim light.
• The paint seemed a bit too dark in the first room so I mixed it with more water. Therefore the paint did spray a lot more. Either way you do it, you're fucked...

So you see: I was better prepared than the day before but still it felt like a disaster afterwards. I still won't become a professional painter. Maybe that's better for the world...

Paint it black

Although this old Stones classic is a great one I stuck with pink when painting my baby girls room yesterday. Black would have been a bit depressive for a three month old baby, don't you agree?
After work I went to paint for another 6 hours. Phew, thank god no one wants me to be a painter for a living. I would end up under some bridge...

Also got an email from Andreas Rücker. He is a former collegue of mine from Spheron days. He has cancer which was a shock to learn. He is about my age and really a nice guy. He has a blog describing his fight against the cancer (in German) at http://www.himmelsreiter.de. If you understand it feel free to read. Makes you think about your life. Let's wish him all the best.