So on Friday I took the day off to help finish the floor at Sleeping Giant. They are going to have a beautiful stained raw pine floor, and it was my job to caulk all the cracks big enough to ensnare a stiletto and send its beautiful owner into a less-than-graceful nosedive.
Josh showed me how to use the caulking ("PCT", I think it is called), complete with a final smoothing down using your fingers. The PCT was then covered with sawdust, which would stain unlike the glue, giving an overall homogeneous appearance (hopefully).
The glue dries the color of petrified dog shit and obviously does not come off your hands for love or money. At least not without taking a whole lot of skin with it.
Luckily for me, I had almost a whole day to scratch/claw/peel the glue off the backs of my hands before I had to get dressed up and go shake hands with my bosses and their spouses at the annual holiday cocktail party, leaving me with red and cut up backs of my hands and shit-colored, cracked palms.
I tried to dress the whole parcel up with some festive red nail polish, but how do you think that went? I refrained from taking pictures of this for your viewing pleasure because, well, its not pleasant to look at.