Day 127

It's Saturday, so no doctor.  We got up at the normal time (7:30) though.  I've found that I can stay up as late as always, get up then, and not be sleepy during the day.  In fact, I feel better than if I had slept in.

I spent the morning working on the panel.  I got the rotary switches wired.  I looked at starting the power switches, but I just didn't feel like it.  I also put a second coat of paint on the satellite repair board.

By then it was noon.  I felt like eating outdoors (it was the mid 70's).  First I boxed up the wood to send to Lawrence.  Ellen insisted that I didn't need to address it.  When we got to the post office, she spent forever fucking with the mailing machine.  She couldn't get it to work.  I said we could come back Monday after addressing the package and stand in the line (it was quicker than the time she spent at the machine).  Again she insisted that they would address it at the counter.  So we stood in line there.  They wouldn't address it.  Instead we would have had to stand there addressing the package while holding up the line.

I HATE people that do stupid things like that at the post office.  I didn't want to be the dumbass old guy holding things up because he's an idiot.  I took the package back to the car.  We drove to the field so Lucy could run.

While I was throwing the bumper Ellen left in the car.  Lucy did an incredible number of retrieves.  I finally called a halt.  Lucy looked for the car and was really confused when she couldn't find it.  We walked back to the post office with Lucy in desert mode - walking from shady spot to shady spot.  We got back just as Ellen was leaving.  She had done what I wanted to do in the beginning - addressed the package, took it to the counter, and mailed it.

After that we went back to the hamburger place we went to on Monday.  They had given us a half off coupon that was good for a week.  I promised Lucy that we would go for ice cream and then to Tomlinson's.  So we did.

When we got home I still didn't feel like working on the control panel.  So I surfed a little, read a lot, and watched Blacklist in the evening.