Today we worked on trim for all the doors in the extension of the North Portland house. I got to use the big chop saw (tool of the day yesterday) as well as a table saw and nail gun. At first Mychal and Esteban just had me sand the edge of a window in the master bedroom. The ceiling is entirely wooden boards and they said that when I was done with the window I had to sand the whole ceiling. This is another example of one of the times when I thought they were being serious, but were really joking around. This happened again when they told me we didn't have time for lunch today because it was already too late (at 12:40). I tried to act not to disappointed and I said I didn't care. Then we went out to lunch and I felt like an idiot.

But before all that and after the sanding I got to actually do some trip. This was probably the biggest deal out of anything I've done so far. I had to overcome my fear of nail guns and of messing up significantly and costing money. Luckily I got to start by doing the trim on the inside of a very small closet. "No one will see it if you fuck up." Thanks Mychal. Getting the miter joint perfect (as in the picture below) is veryyy difficult.

Especially when the dry wall and the casing aren't flush and when you've already fudged on the top piece a little bit so you have to use a compound angle on the chop saw to get things just right. Mine weren't all perfect (in fact none were perfect) but the first two were on the insides of closets and the third was on the inside of this weird door way thing. So even though the reveal was a little bigger than 3/16's things will probably be fine.

For lunch we went to boulevard tacos. Esteban made me eat some jalapeños before I started my burrito. I drank four big cups of water and in between every bite of burrito I had to take another gulp to put out the fire in my mouth. One of the times when I got up to refill my water I returned to find a sly looking Mychal and a chuckling Esteban. My face had finally stopped sweating at that point so I was suprised and angry to find another jalapeño stuffed into the top of my burrito where I may not have seen it if I wasn't careful. I took it out and threw it at Esteban, who was cracking up.

Tool of the Day: Omer 23 Gauge Pin Nailer (I think an older version). Used this puppy to shoot all of the nails through the trim into the casing of the doors. Can hold many different sizes of nails. So scary. The nail gun I used for siding on my first day was like the AK-47 of nail guns. This was like an uzi.