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Doing a paint job on weak product - can it work?

For the past few weeks I have been wearing a black eye patch. Not because I want to single-handedly bring back "pirate style". Although the eye patch did provide me with a mysteriously dangerous look, which I enjoyed. The reason for the eye patch is that I got "Bell's Palsy" which is partial paralysis of the face. (Yeah, not fun.)

An eye patch was necessary to keep direct air from drying my eye since I could not blink very well.

I'm OK now. The doctor said that my "Bell's Palsy" is not stroke related -- that they don't know how you get it and there is nothing to cure it, but time.

The paralysis has receded and my face is back to normal, but I miss the eye patch. Arrrr! (You think its funny now, but when you hear it a thousand times it gets a little annoying.)

During my "one eye days" I went shopping for masking tape to cover the base boards of a wall I was painting. I went to the Home Depot to buy the tape and what I thought would be a quick purchase of a tried and true product became a 10 min. product-to-product research and comparison.

You see, right next to the painter's masking tape there was a new kind of tape (at least new to me) called "painters blue tape" which is actually blue in color. Blue Tape claims that it is used strictly for painting since it's less sticky and it comes off easily without damaging the surface.

At Home Depot the blue tape was $4.39 where the regular painter's masking tape was $2.85 for the same quantity -- a difference of $1.50.

For a second there I said to myself "maybe the blue one is better"... but I was quickly able to focus my one good eye on the main difference between these two products and that was that one tape was blue and the other was yellow.

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