Grr at self

"I put the 2nd coat of stain on the bookshelves yesterday, and failed to wipe off the excess stain that didn't soak in. So now this morning they are still visibly wet & sticky on most surfaces.
Now I'm worried that they won't dry properly, or that they will take so long to dry that all sorts of dust & grit will have a chance to get trapped in the stain.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to fix this. I wonder if I put a 3rd coat on if it would soften the excess stain from the 2nd coat and allow me to then wipe the excess off like I was supposed to do.

On a positive note, played with welder a bit last night, and still have eyebrows. Need to be better about using welding mask and not just closing eyes, as my eyes are very tired today."

Review: Coca-Cola BlaK

"This past weekend, just a I was leaving Rhode Island, I saw a billboard for Coca-Cola BlaK (warning official site with flash, sound, and pretension). I was curious because it advertised itself as something like 'coke with coffee essence.'
I needed to try this, because really, what I need more of in my life is ways to cram more caffiene into a body that either ignores it or gets paranoid and jittery. I tried to locate it at the various convience stores I stopped in while in MA & CT but with no luck.
Yesterday on the way home from work I found a bottle. It comes in a little 8-oz glass bottle like the old coke ones, except with a screw top (which is more handy than a pop-cap but looks dorky as fuck).
Lets get to the relevant part, how does it taste? Sort of blandly nasty. You can taste the coke, and you can taste somthing that reminds you of coffee... sorta. These two taste sensations combine to form a vaguely disapointing situation with a subtle undertone of vile.

But that isn't the worst part.

The worst part is when you finish it (and man those 8 oz seemed to take forever). Because then the aftertaste kicks in. It leaves an incredibly persistant coffee aftertaste in your mouth, but not a pleasant 'I just finished a nice cup of coffee and can still taste it faintly' kind of way. Nope, not even close. Let me try and explain the aftertaste.

Have you ever been driving home from somewhere very late at night, and you are exhausted and falling asleep, but know you have at least two more hours of driving to go. So you pull off at some middle-of-nowhere 24-hour gas station, and you get a kit-kat bar or something, and think a cup of coffee would be a good idea. And as you are pouring the coffee you notice the pot hasn't been cleaned in a period of time measurable on a geologic scale. And the only creamer they have is the powdered kind, and they are out of suger, but do have some sort of generic apertame-knockoff sweetner. But you need to stay awake, so you buy your nasty coffee, and you drive home drinking it and shuddering with every sip. When you finally get home, you stumble to your bed, and fall asleep across it, without taking off your shoes or anything.
Then you finally awake the next day, still feeling bleary and lost. And realize the last thing you drank was the horrible, horrible coffee hours ago, and you haven't brushed your teeth.

That is what the Coca-Cola BlaK aftertaste is like."