Day 2 of decontamination. Day 2 of waking up at 6am. Day 2 of learning something new about the amount of work necessary to decontaminate a meth house. What a crazy day.
Since everybody had worked so hard yesterday finishing up the wipe down process before the day was over, we were able to start the process of priming the entire house as soon as we got there. I had no idea what the process of priming would look like, but I quickly found out that it would be another pretty long day.
Priming the house was actually going to be the easy part of the day because we had a paint sprayer, which was sweet cause I can't imagine priming by hand would be any fun. However, having a paint sprayer was almost like a catch 22, because instead of just taping off edges of trim and windows around the house, we had to completely cover the floor and windows with paper, plastic, and basically anything we could find. The over spray from the sprayer would have ruined the floors and windows if we hadn't masked everything, so it was definitely a necessary evil.
It took us a good majority of the morning to mask everything in the bedrooms, the living and dining room, and the kitchen, so we were able to start priming by early afternoon! This was the part of my day that I had the most mixed feelings about.
Basically two people were needed for the priming. One to actually spray the primer and one to hold the hose so it didn't get caught, tangled, or hit against the newly primed walls. I volunteered to be the one holding the hose since I didn't know how to prime, so that meant I had to get back in a ti-vac suit and put on gloves and a respirator.
This is where my feelings got mixed up. Being in the ti-vac suit yesterday was super hot and not necessarily the most enjoyable thing so the prospect of being in the suit again was not thrilling, but I was going to get to wear a respirator! Which was actually pretty cool, because I have never worn a respirator before and I think it's cool to something you wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to do in "regular" life. And I looked pretty cool in a respirator and ti-vac suit.
After we suited up, everything went pretty smoothly. It took a long time because we needed multiple coats and each coat took a while to dry, but we were out of their around 8pm after we masked and primed everything we could for the day. Long day, but it was pretty cool to learn about painting, masking, etc.
When we cleaned up, I met the other interns over at Greg's to shoot at some tannerite. The explosions I saw tonight were super legit. Greg blew up two old, portable tv's, but he set them on top of this run down shed on his property, so not only did the tv blow up, so did the roof of the shed. Awesome.
As we were leaving Greg's, Laura suggested we go to a bonfire with one of her friends, Andrew. It was still relatively early, so I didn't have a problem with it! We got there around 10:30pm and we bonfired it up until around 2am. That was a long bonfire. It was full of good conversation though, so I think the general consensus was that it was a good bonfire.
Sleep was well in order, when we got back, so I hit the hay as soon as I could because I told my buddy I would meet him at his place to continue work around 7am, which means a 6am wake up for me. I wasn't too excited, but it was for my buddy's sake, so I was willing to do it.
Thank you so much for following along, and for all your support!
God bless,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. Oil primer is way more potent than latex primer. This stuff gets everywhere and you cannot breathe while your in the middle of it.
2. Tannerite definitely explodes with a downward force.
3. Acts 11
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