Dealing with guitars

So I finally got around to stringing the HippieCaster. I hate stringing guitars - so why'd I become a guitar player? Anyway, as I mentioned before the guitar was filthy and I had to do a serious cleaning on this thing. In fact, I should probably clean it again. The previous owner had it set up with .008 strings which is too light for me. I put on .009s and of course it plays like crap now. Argh, time to get out my Dan Erlewine books, get some alcohol, and set it up. What a pain. I should probably save myself the trouble and take it to Mike Lull.