Painting

This weekend was a trip to the paint store for some exterior touch-up work: areas where the expansion and constriction of underlying caulk has caused cracks, and then also a re-paint of some wooden trimwork that has proven vulnerable to sun exposure and rain.

Also painting, but on an order-of-magnitude smaller scale:

Details from the Zoids kit I finally got around to building, after ordering it from Japan almost five years ago. A Masters degree, candidacy in the PhD program, two stints abroad (Denmark, Sweden,) a Fulbright fellowship, and a house and car purchase have all come in the time between this kit arriving in the States and me assembling it.