Watching Paint Dry

Quite liderally, I'm watching paint dry waiting for second-coat time.
And I have also painted over the cracks if you want another corny catchphrase.
This avo, the plumber is coming to fix the leak in the kitchen sink while I get on the phone to try to get some research funding, and try to knock an academic paper into shape (yet again; it's a very wobbly amoeba). Yet another working summer... a few days off later this month perhaps, early next month perhaps...