Day 58

So I got semi-ambitious today. 

The first task was to figure out what had gone wrong with the rear channel amplifier.  Yesterday evening it had go into protect mode.  I unplugged the power strip it was connected to, but that didn't do any good.  It was bed time, so I left it for this morning.  I pulled the amp out of the rack and looked at the back.  I didn't see anything wrong, so I pulled the power cord out.  When I plugged it back in, it worked.  I like easy fixes.

I took the barrel out and started it soaking in Kroil.  I'll leave it there for 5 days.  Then I decided to put out those solar lights that we have so many of.  I put three by the end of the sidewalk.  I put two fireflies by the flamingos in the back.  I put the flamingo in the middle of the sawed off trees in the back.  Finally I put two color change spheres by the windmills in the back.

When it got dark, one of the fireflies and one of the color change spheres didn't work.  The sphere didn't have a block in the battery, so it might be dead.  That would piss me off, it was expensive.

Lucy went out just before dark when the new lights were on.  She was barking at one of them, I'm not sure which.

After I finished the lights I decided to try the new abrasive wheel on the last of the driveway posts.  It worked really well.  It worked so well that after I was finished with the post I started on the light pole.  I went up as far as I could comfortably reach.  By that time I was tired and I'd worn out the wheel.

Of course I painted everything then.  It took a whole can of paint to do the pole and post.  It will actually take more, since I need to put on a second coat.  I'll need to buy at least two more cans of paint and another wheel.

Doing the rest of the light pole is going to be a pain.  I'll have to have Ellen help by holding the ladder when I try to do the top of the pole.

By the time I was finished with all of that I felt I'd done all that I needed to today.  So I went into the house and watched movies and surfed for the rest of the day.  I didn't seem worthwhile to go anywhere.