Dang Rani, you were doing so good there, until you said that you end leaving it in the corner...
Get a quick refresh kit from Mancini and get-r-dun....
http://www.manciniracing.com/sealedpowerkit.html
But I like the way that you think...
Start with a quick clean up and paint turns into a quick refresh....
That's what happened with my son's 72 Challenger engine. We pulled it for a "quick fix", then checked our compression and found it lower than we wanted. Then found a set of heads with smaller combustion chambers to help get the compression back up. Now it's still out until we finish degreeing all of our cams and pick the best one for that engine...
We're getting one or two cams degreed per day. We just need to keep going until it's finished....