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Quote: Hope you're weekend is better than mine
Nah, it's raining over here and I have to scrape stucco from the bedroom walls so it can be wallpapered 
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Sound advice, but luckily it's only one wall that has to be done, we want to cover up some nasty cracks.
Wallpapering seems to be very easy nowadays, you can just put the glue on the wall and stick the glass fiber wallpaper on it. 
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Yeah, I know it's supposed to be very easy.
I'm still hiring someone 
I painted one wall in my own house, one small wall in the kitchen.
It was horrible, I had do it over and when I was done (for the second time) it still looked like sh*t and I realized I forgot to fill up some holes.
I couldn't be bothered by doing it a third time so I just left it like that.
Lesson learned: next time, hire someone even for one small wall! 
I've never wallpapered in my life, but getting it off is enough hassle to hire someone to do it all.
And I have a similar experience in the garden
I'm just not made to work with my hands (unless it's at a keyboard) 
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What can I say? Some of us are made for honest (== hot, sweaty, dirty, outside) work, and some aren't
Small jobs (e.g. filling in some cracks, painting a wall) I do myself. Anything to do with electricity or water is done by professionals. Wallpapering is right at the limit of my abilities, so I'd hire someone to do the job. Life is too short to live with minor aggravations like crooked wallpaper etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Some of us are made for honest (== hot, sweaty, dirty, outside) work, and some aren't
I do lots of dishonest work.
Like groceries, they're all like "this is a good time to come and get us!" and then it's all busy at the store or it starts raining.
Or starting the dishwasher, which is all like "I need some brightener!" and then I get the brightener, but it's actually near full.
And of course coding, and the code is looking compilable, but then I get all kinds of compile errors.
Or worse, the compiler works and tells me the software is good to go, but when I run it I get runtime errors.
Dishonest work, all of it!
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Whenever I would go into a neighborhood to work 2 things would happen within a day or two; 1. The sound of men in the area using power tools and the resulting dirty looks I got from them, 2. Women asking me how much I would charge to do such and such that they've been trying to get their husbands to do forever.
Got a lot of work that way.
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2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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I feel your pain - my mother moved into an old folks bungalow after hes cancer diagnosis, and some f*ckw*t had Artexed the Elephanting walls. Guess who got to remove that lot?
The final method was an industrial steamer rental, and a quick lesson in plastering ... followed by getting someone else to do the papering.
Artex should be governed by the Geneva Convention...
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I hope you kept in mind that old Artex could contain asbestos.
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Artex is truly awful, it'a bastard to put on even worse to get off and looks f*****g horrible
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Good luck!
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OK, you got me! Your weekend sounds a lot worse! 
Hope it gets better for you! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: OK, you got me! Your weekend sounds a lot worse!
Life is a competition and I must win. LOL
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Why are you heartbroken? Your average CP article rating is 4.85 - that's no small feat. Plus, you're clearly smart and capable of carrying on without your boyfriend. If he asked you not to talk to him anymore, he's clearly not worth talking to! Get well, get your attendance back up, write more articles and have an awesome life! Don't let small people make a big difference in your life!
/ravi
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Now you're discriminating the little people !
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Randy Newman wrote a song about that.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Love that song, have it in my MP3 collection
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Small-minded people, not little people. I love little people. A lot.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Don't let small people make a big difference in your life!
LOL. He was the one introducing Code Project to me. (I hope he's not reading this right now) 
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Even better.
/ravi
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Many young men find intelligent and competent young women intimidating. The only advice I will give you is not to compromise; somewhere out there is someone who can appreciate you for what you are, rather than what he'd like you to be.
As for the rest (sickness, rain, stairs, squash, studies), that's just life - some days you get honey, other days you get onions. The important thing is not to let it depress you.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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MehreenTahir wrote: my boyfriend asked me not to talk to him anymore
For this blessing: rejoice !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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