The night before President George W Bush was inaugurated, I got the grand idea that it was time to showcase the beautiful hardwood floor that hid beneath some really aged carpeting in my bedroom. I spent the whole night pulling up the carpeting, removing the tackboard, countless staples, and old padding. By dawn I was delirious and in the final stages of sweeping the floor and enjoying the sweet scent of Murphy’s Oil Soap as I finished mopping. I’ll never forget sitting in the soft sunlight that poured into the room that morning, in complete amazement of how much work I had single handedly accomplished overnight. It stands as one of the best major DIY projects I have ever undertaken and completed within hours. By the time I went to bed later that morning, yes during the inauguration, I had been awake close to 30 hours.