I don't have the answers yet, but I have learned enough to be dangerous, and ask better questions..

OK I don't like this new browser. It lets me think I am typing in Arial, but it looks like Times New Roman. Well, perhaps it publishes Arial on the page. Also, it seems to get "tired" because after a while it won't let me enter any text in text fields. So I have to kill it and open it again.

Sigh.

I am painting my new home which is a disaster area. I think the FEMA signs are still here somewhere...

The old paint in the kitchen really needed to come off in a bad way. Think 1950's puke peach with about 50 years of greasy cooking in a small place, and you will get the idea, replete with food flecks embedded into the wall.

But the rent is awesome, and in Santa Barbara, the rent prices approach Ridiculously Exhorbitant for even the dumps.

Back to the kitchen. I decided to attack the old paint with every chemical in the arsenal. I even tried a WMD  (which we all know can be ordered via credit card and shipped same day from New Jersey) with no avail. But, in my trials,  I did discover a trick that you too can use in your personal painting endeavors.

Whatever you need to remove from the walls, whether it be paint, food flecks, wall paper, small children, bugs, etc. just apply primer as though you were going to actually try to paint the wall. One good base coat on an area that has not been previously stripped yields all kinds of slideable goo that easily comes off with the persistent application of a modestly sharp (or terribly blunted in my case) paint scraper. Even better - prime the ceilings and pop back in the next morning for your coffee, and lo! Strips of paint will be peeling down in sheets from the ceiling. You can easily grasp them and peel away to reveal a thoroughly stripped surface.

Ahh the joys of painting.....