Started off the day with a run to go get the wood for around my rack cut. That went pretty smooth without any real problems. Then I went to get stain for it, and ended up getting some stuff that's both the stain and the polyurethane in one so there aren't multiple steps. The only problem is it's very sticky and I started thinking the water based stuff might have been better. After the first coat and attempted cleanup, I ended up going grocery shopping and picked up this stuff called goop which managed to somehow clean it off. It didn't get rid of the nice strong chlorine smell on my hands from the other fun chemicals I tried, but that should wear off soon. After the second coat that goop stuff even cleaned up the brush nicely, which I think is pretty amazing. We'll see if the brush is nicer the next time around with the trim whenever I do that (it got a little gummy between the first and second ones). Between coats there Joe, brooke, Trav, and Dave came over and we watched Taxi Driver. Yea, that movie's just weird, and I'm still not sure what the whole point of the story was, but oh well. Then we sat around and watched Leno and Conan and then everyone left. Hopefully despite being in the garage the stain will dry sufficiently overnight that I can break out the power tools and install it and reinstall the rack tomorrow.