The hell of ten thousand stairs

My stairs have a lot of carpet brads in them. Imagine a number of carpet brads you consider "a lot". Now remove those, with tiny pliers. Now look again and realize you still have about that many left to go. Apply pliers and tiny pry-bars once more. Now look again, and find more hiding under paint, dry wall splatter, and stray carpet fuzz. Remove those. Now realize you still have a dozen under the lip of each stair. Remove. Declare it done. Look again--find a dozen more.

Eventually the stairs have to run out of tacks, right? Then I get to pad and caulk all the gaps around the steps, then sand them all. Then, perhaps, I can paint.

The red of cabernet sauvignon, a world of ruby all in vain

It's time to play the name game again! This time I need a name for an order of warrior priests/church soldiers. The church is the Unconquered Sun, and the priests go around fighting monsters, protecting travelers, guarding the clergy, and occasionally intimidating emperors and putting the fear of Sun into whoever is annoying church officials. A great deal of red is probably worn.

Any thoughts?