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Back from my appointment, and ... wow. Um ... um ...

... I was actually ready to walk away from this gig. This gentleman is a really nice guy but oh, bless his heart, his house.

I mean, he inherited a lot of the decorative travesties when he bought the place, but seems intent on inflicting a whole new and different set upon it. Although I doubt anything could outdo the blue-and-black-scattered-zits sponge-painting job in the room where he wants the mural. I've never seen anything quite like it, and my only real demand was that this had to be well painted over before I begin. Because my artist's paints are not that opaque, and would require many layers to hide those splotches.

He's removing the early-'80s striped pinkish floral wallpaper in the kitchen ... but replacing it with a wallpaper that resembles some kind of fabric from Jamaica, maybe? It's a large abstract pattern of deep blue with oranges, reds, yellows.

And he just seems so unsure of himself, and rushed, and I wish he'd take a breath and chill out. But I'll only be there for a day, and it'll be good money, and I talked him out of the Idea That Would Have Looked All Wrong and we settled on the Idea That Could Actually Be OK, so.

Why, why, why must I be out of caffeinated coffee today?