15 hours, 3 gallons of paint, and 4 rolls of blue tape later, my living room is now gray. Still needs the odd touch-up here and there, but the bulk of the work is done. This is one step closer to a home theater (and being able to unpack some of the stuff that needs to go into that room).

For those of your who aren't complete geeks, the title of this post is the units equivalent of one Joule per kilogram, or, as we say in the nuclear engineering community, 1 Gray. Little joke, there. But I find it unintuitive that a measurement of energy deposition in matter can be expressed in area per square second. Sometimes, using the right units can transform the completely inscrutable into something quite simple. But no unit transformations known to man can explain why I'm writing this rubbish. Time for bed.