Work on the control panel has been suspended in favor of putting up the car shelter. We got up at 7:30, stayed in bed with the tablets for awhile, and then got up. I ate breakfast and then went out to assemble the shelter.
The assembly wasn't hard, but the instructions left something to be desired. I managed to get the roof sections (everything but the legs) assembled relatively easily. It's madr of 3 and 4 foot sections of tubing that press fit together. The result was really rickety (that's what the web reviews said). So after that was done we went out to buy some screws and go to an estate sale.
We got the screws at Lowes. The estate sale was OK. We bought some glassware and I got a couple of baby food jars full of screws. It was off Congress, so I drove down to Slaughter to go home. On the way we stopped at a park and Lucy did 20 medium retrieves. She stopped when I wanted to. I wanted to stop at the new Thai place, but it wasn't open yet. So we did some shopping at Randall's. There was a forty or fifty person line waiting to vote the whole time we were there.
When we got home we had lunch and then I went out to install the screws. I put in 80 screws. It made a big difference in how sturdy the frame was. I'll need to buy more before I can finish. It took two and a half hours and I was tired when I got done. My legs really hurt from all the bending over. Lucy was tired too, but we went to the mailbox anyway.
The last thing I did was pack up the Hot Wheels stuff we bought awhile back. It took two boxes. I'll probably mail it tomorrow.
There was no paper today, so I wrote an email to the Austin Statesman to complain.
The evening was Minions, surfing, and Gold Derp.
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