Little Rock isn’t so bad. Sometimes. Now that I’m closer to my job, I don’t have to get gas 2.5 times a week. More like once every 2.5 weeks, if that.

Many days and nights ago, the lady and I, subsequent to many investigative incursions into cheap furniture stores with names like “Furniture Outlet” and “Oak Express,” we agreed upon the purchase of a particular center of entertainment. ie, entertainment center.

The TV sitting on the coffee table was getting old.

I wanted something non flake-board-veneer.

One of those life lessons that amazingly this retard has actually learned, is that “if it comes in a box and you have to assemble it, …it ain’t furniture.”

So to make a long story short but still boring, we bought an entertainment center from the “unpainted furniture center.” And let me tell you, that place was the true center of furniture that hasn’t been painted.

Which brings us to life lesson #2: When you live in an apartment complex, you generally aren’t going to have anywhere to actually paint your recently purchased unpainted furniture, when you get it home.

Sand, stain, sand, stain. Annoy neighbors. Annoy Neighbors. Sand.
Finish, sand. Finish, sand. Annoy neighbors some more. Finish. Pick bugs out of dried finish. Sand. Finish.
Exactly in that order, over a period of two weeks of assorted nights, ….so much so that the wife says she doesn’t like our fabulous entertainment center because it’s shinier than a bowling alley lane.

She’ll have to get used to it.



Other life lessons learned sofar:

1. Utility companies are evil.
2. “Deposits,” most of the time, aren’t really “deposits” in the true sense of the word.
3. Bad credit history, ..no you don’t want to have it. Many reasons I won’t go into.