Day 184

When I woke up this morning it was raining.  It rained on and off until late afternoon.  At times it rained really hard.  It misted for most of the rest of the time.

After reading the paper I went back out to the well house to finish up soldering the upper mainline.  Things didn't start off good.  The soldering iron wouldn't work.  I messed around with it for awhile and finally got out the Radio Shack one that I bought at the train show.  I managed to finish with it, but it isn't as good an iron.

After I finished up the soldering I decided to go to Harbor Freight.  I took along a few coupons.  The coupons allowed me to get a DMM and a flashlight for free, calipers at a really reduced price, and 25% off a set of wire cutters.  The wire cutters I'd been using sucked.  I had to almost rip the insulation off. 

After Harbor Freight I decided to go for a late lunch.  That's when I discovered the everyone in Austin goes to a late lunch on rainy Sundays.  I couldn't get in at Golden Corral or Cheddars.  I ended up eating at Burger-Fi.  After that I stopped at Tomlinson's.

When I got home I tried out the new wire cutters.  They work great.  Soldering will be a lot easier from now on.

I was half thinking of doing more work in the afternoon, but I happened to look at an HBO show called Game of Thrones.  HBO is having a free weekend.  This show is really cool.  HBO was having a marathon, so I spent all afternoon and evening watching it.  It's not as gory as Spartacus, but everybody in it is as slimy as the Jew in Spartacus.