When the alarm went off this morning I just turned over and went back to sleep. About 8:30 I got up and did the pet stuff. I didn't eat breakfast because I felt like shit. We both surfed until about 9:15 when it was time to take Ellen to the doctor.
When I got back from that the first thing I did was clean a dead bug off the windshield. It had hit EXACTLY where I look when driving. I also cleaned the inside of the windshield. That made a big improvement.
The next chore was cleaning the Weatherby. It had some malfunctions yesterday. When I took it apart it was filthy. I'd forgotten that we had lent it to the club. The gas sleeve was totally covered in carbon, as was a good portion of the magazine tube. It was a miracle that it ran at all. It took quite awhile to clean.
The last chore was applying mortar. I did two more sections of the foundation and then ran out of mortar mix. I think it's going to come out nice.
By the time I took a shower it was time to leave. I got to the doctor just as Ellen was done. Good timing. We went to Longhorn for a late lunch. I hadn't eaten all day, so I was hungry.
When we got home the transformer for the gate opener was in the mailbox. It was too hot to mess with it though.
I spent the rest of the afternoon surfing and playing Minions. About 6 it got cool enough to work on the gate. The new transformer has a light. Plugging it into the socket turns on the light and I measured 18 VAC at the output. When I hooked it up to the opener the light went out and the output went to 0. That was with the opener power switch turned off. I took apart the opener. Neither fuse was blown. The board looked nasty, but there weren't any obvious problems. With the power switch off the + and - power terminals were shorted together. That says "dead opener" to me. I'll try to get another tomorrow, but I'm not looking forward to getting everything to work together.
After that I went in for a late dinner and TV. Some of it was gun shows and some was football.
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