It was an interesting day. We got to the trailer inspection place a little before 8. They took us as soon as they were open. The "inspection" consisted of looking at our trailer. We were out in 10 minutes.
I decided to get the tags on the way home. We stopped at Dripping Springs. They said the tags were already issued. We had to pay $7 for duplicates. This was confusing. We took the opportunity to vote while we were there.
When we got home the place was as overgrown as a expected, maybe more. I was disappointed at the amount of weeds in the driveway and parking areas. The broken tree branch is impressive. It's probably 10 inches in diameter. It took an hour (I'm not kidding) to get the trailer parked. Then we spent the next hour and a half unloading the inside of the trailer. We still have under the bed and the basement to do.
At that point I didn't want to do any more, especially since I hadn't eaten yet today. So we went to the Post Office and Cheddars. The lunch was great and it gave us a chance to look at some of the mail. The tag mystery was solved. Ellen had already paid for the renewal and had forgotten about it. So we already had a tag. Next time she needs to pay for it sooner. I'm not sure why we even needed a safety tag.
On the way back we stopped at Best Buy to get a cable modem. It was $130, but that's better than paying $11/mo in rent. I'm probably going to have to do some wire fishing to wire it in. The old cables are now being used for DirectTV.
At least the house didn't give much trouble. The pump works, as does all the electronics. The only problems were a burnt out light bulb and the chain falling off the toilet lever. The dumbshit that owned this place struck again. The bar on the handle had broken. Instead of buying a new one, he hot glued the chain to the bar. Idiot.
We spent the rest of the afternoon watching some TV and putting stuff away. We've still got stuff to put away and a lot of mail to go through. All in all it was a pretty good first day.
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