Eighty bucks for a rain jacket?? That seems kinda steep but also... three soaked bus rides would probably break me too. Seattle drizzle does not mess around.

That sanding dust gets everywhere, but the real win is how much less tired my shoulder feels the next day. I mean, hand sanding for three hours has you twisting your wrist in ways your body just wasn't made for. Maybe it's just me, but I found that using a finer grit paper on the orbital makes the drywall finish way smoother than I ever got by hand, so the sander pays for itself in fewer coats of mud too.

Bank tellers mess up more than they fix, honestly.