Barracuda Style: How We Do Things

Got some painting going last night on the basement. Cam Barrett is in town, and well, he�s �up for� helping me getting the pad up and running. We tooled out to Home Depot�which mysteriously felt like a magical expanse of possibilities and headaches�for supplies for the night�s project.Kilz latex primer. Virgin white. Thick and mean. Covers up basically anything.And man, when I paint, I paint �Barracude Style.� Nothing survives the flick of my brush. Spiders, cobwebs, silverfish�all extra debris is laid to waste in a chaotic flurry of brushstrokes. Sure, dads and those with experience might shakes their heads with wisdom, thinking, �Asshole, you gotta clean all that stuff out before you paint.� Well, we did for the most part, but, we were running hot and man, the paint needed to get outta the can and on to the goddamn wall.And it did.And it actually looks good.That foundation wall soaks the paint up real good too. It�s gonna take a couple coats to get those walls pure white. That�s fine. We got the time, paint, muscle, determination, dumb luck, adventurous spirit, tunes, cold beverages, complete lack of talent and blind ambition to get the job done.Once the walls are whitewashed, we�ll start the campaign on the floor. First, we�ll scrub it with a mild dish soap concoction, y�know, to pull up any dirt/grease/blood to get it ready for the �slate gray massacre� that we�ll blitzkrieg with all guns firing. The plan is to start in a corner, and literally paint ourselves up and out of the room, toward the stairs, up the stairs to where the kitchen hardwoods start. Barracuda Style, no less.Once the basement is tuned up, we�ll �set up shop� to get the DDC Factory Floor up and running.