A Little Extra Power and Smell Never Killed Anyone... Sunday, June 22

I've been slaving away for two days straight and feel like I have nothing to show for all our hardwork renovations other than perhaps some painted walls and a few added machines.  I wonder if our Hulkies will notice the estimated 30hrs of work we've put into the club in just the past two days.  The plan is to wake up tomorrow and put in another 6hrs before the club opens. 

"Do you think they'll notice?" I asked Snickers.  "Maybe no, but they'd notice if we didn't."  This is true.

They'd notice that they would have to continue to be picky with where they jump rope, how the light over the bathroom sink and in one stall no longer works, and some may continue to notice the broken vent in the bathroom.  I'd continue to have random members asking me if I'll ever buy a lat pull down bar and my answer would continue to be "put it on the list".  Members would continue to notice the annoying flaking away of our yoga mats and how they're not much for padding. They'd notice we have kettlebell pairs for all our weights except for the 6kg and 8kg, and that we have three 4kg kettlebells instead of four.  The members who train early would continue to notice the towels hanging to dry and the late nighters would notice the shortage of towels.  They'd notice the ghettoness of our shelf units and the stains on them from days of past when Hulk's when LeChard Hair.  They'd notice the scratches and scrapes on the juice bar, the random dead juice bar lights, and the totally unlit juice bar corner.  They'd also continue to notice parts of the flooring that need gluing and how new members catch they feet on front area.  They'd continue to notice the smelly glove room due to the excess of left-behind former members shoes that they'd also continue to notice.  They may not notice that there is a hole in my bedroom ceiling but some may notice there's a hole in the bathroom ceiling and that sometimes the pups are able to escape their corridors via a hole in their fence.  And for sure they'll continue to notice the "peek-a-boo bums" as random male Hulkies continue to accidentally stand too close to the shower room entrance.

We haven't done all the renovations just yet nor have we added all the extras to the club, like weights and extra shelving units, but this weekend we attacked a huge chunk of them.  I couldn't help but take an honest long look at the club tonight and wonder what exactly did we do that took so much of our time.  For the most part, it feels like Snickers has spent his whole weekend eithert crouched on the floor or in the ceiling and I've spent it painting.   We've both inhaled well over the limit of fumes from my painting and the glue from the floor.  Snickers had a relief from the dizzy-head inducing fumes when he spent a good chunk of the evening up in the ceiling, trying to do the electrical and not get electricuted too badly that is, and I took a break when I thought I was going to faint.  Nice.  Breaks were only taken when absolutely necessarily, like at fainting point and being electrocuted.  From an entrepreneur/workaholic's point of view, thankfully not too many breaks were had but from a regular Joe's perspective unfortunately not enough breaks were taken.