Day 182

I didn't take the computer with me when we went to Kerrville, so this entry covers the last four days. 

Tuesday was a little stressful, but it worked out pretty well.  I sat around the house surfing in the morning waiting for word on the delivery.  None came, and I went to the doctor at 11.  He was running late, so I didn't get to see him until 11:45.  Everything was good there, and I got a text from Lee saying the delivery would be there in 20 - 30 minutes just as I was leaving.  I stopped at the roach coach for a quick lunch (it was good) and then went to Jason's place.  I followed Lee and the truck was waiting.  Jason wasn't there.  Lee helped me load it into my truck.

I took the stuff home and loaded it into the garage.  Ellen called from the airport just as I was finishing.  I closed up the house and drove to the airport to pick her up.  We left from there for Kerrville.  The trip was uneventful and fairly quick.  We got settled in and then had dinner with the crew.

The next morning we had breakfast with the crew and went to the club.  They didn't have the trailer, so there wasn't a lot to do.  I really didn't do much except set out 8 sponsor signs when we went to shoot.  I didn't do too bad for not shooting in almost 5 months.  At lunch we went our separate ways.  Ellen and I went to this cool variety store.  It had clothes, groceries, hardware, guns, and all sorts of other stuff.  It was cool.  We also stopped at the GMC dealership to look at trucks.  The GMC is nice, but it doesn't have an EGT gauge or a rear seat AC vent.  We went back to the club, did a little more work, and then went back to the motel.  We had dinner with the crew and the mucky mucks.

The next morning was early.  We ate at 6 with the crew and were at the club at 8.  Again there wasn't anything for me to do.  I did start out a couple of shooters, but then Bobby took over.  During the shoot I walked between some stations and gave people advice.  I was pissed that we didn't get to shoot the flurry.  Ellen was bullshitting with an all female squad and didn't get there in time.  I did shoot twice with shooters who asked.  After the lunch I helped a little with cleanup, but there just wasn't much to do.  We had dinner with the crew.

This morning we got up and had breakfast in Kerrville.  Then we drove to Fredericksburg.  We walked through the town.  For once we bought stuff for ourselves.  We ordered a couple of recliners from the Amish furniture store.  We also bought some stones for a ring for Ellen.  It was an expensive day.

When we got home the problems started.  The gate wouldn't work.  It just sat there beeping.  After unloading everything I took the documentation up and unbolted the thing.  The documentation said the beeping was because the limit switches were shorted.  I opened up the controller and there were bug guts on the circuit board.  So I blew them off and put everything back together.  It worked.  I like quick fixes.

The second problem was harder.  When I logged onto the computer the network adapter wouldn't work.  Windows said it turned it off because it reported and error.  Rebooting wouldn't help.  I tried the Intel website, it was useless.  Then I tried the Windows toubleshooter.  It told be to disable and enable the adapter.  The problem was that the adapter didn't show up - Windows had turned it off.  Finally I thought of Device Manager.  It showed the adapter and allowed me to disable and enable it.  That fixed the problem.

Ellen has been watching the shows she taped while she was gone (Friday TV sucks).  I've been doing a little surfing.  Now I'm going to take a shower and go to bed.