Day 30

So we've been gone a month.

DirectTV called this morning and said they wouldn't be here until the afternoon.  So we went to an estate sale in Dripping Springs.  It had a lot of neat stuff, but we only bought a nice comfy desk chair for Ellen.  We went to a second one that was supposed to be open at 8.  It was 9:30 and they were closed.  There was a guy inside the gate, but he ignored us.  So we said screw it and left.

We went back to Dripping Springs.  We got gas and groceries at HEB.  HEB had quite a bit of stuff on sale.  We bought several good dinners worth of stuff.

Then it was time to go home.  I switched to the truck and went back to pick up the chair.  Then I went to the post office and to Lowe's for another garage cabinet.  I found out later that my package was at the post office, but they didn't put the notice in our box until about half an hour after I got there at 1:30.  Assholes.

While I was out Ellen called to say that she'd destroyed the TV optical cable that I tried to fix yesterday.  I wish she hadn't fucked with it.  Now we have to order another cable and a converter. When it gets here we'll have to unconnect the TV, fish the new cable, and reconnect everything.  I told Ellen I didn't want to hear a peep of bitching when we do it.

When I got back I went to work on the cabinet.  It took awhile to figure out how to mount it under the shelf.  Finally I decided to cut the support of one bracket.  I also put up two boards to mount it to.  That way it won't start to fall off like the other one did.  I couldn't finish because I didn't have bolts to mount it.

The new cable box doesn't have an optical out.  I didn't have one, so no TV sound. 

After dinner we went to get a cable.  Amazingly Radio Shit had one.  We also went to Lowe's to get some bolts and spare 2x4's.  We also stopped for some ice cream.  When we got home I hooked up the new cable.  Now we have TV sound.