Laura and I took possession of the new place today and it is…. dirty. Not filthy like on How Clean is your House, mind you. It is more that from the middle of every room, it seems clean but when you get close to anything, you realize nothing is actually clean. It’s going to take some work.

Also, the previous tenants had painted the back wall of the master bedroom in this ugly striped pattern:

Worse still, when you got up close, you could feel the edges between the different stripes on the wall. So I spent most of today cleaning some walls and mostly sanding down and filling in holes (in walls).