Day 551

I got up about 8, but didn't get out of bed.  Instead it was an hour of surfing before pet stuff and breakfast.  I did make sure that Ellen called the doctor early.  I'm worried about her asshole bleeding.  Of course they didn't call back.

I had generated a short list of todo items for Ellen - a couple of phone calls and an email.  She got them done while I surfed and shot two squirrels that were raiding the feeders.  It was cloudy, so we took the dog with us when I went to get a haircut.  Ellen went to Best Buy while I got my haircut.  I was lucky.  When i walked in there was no one waiting.  When I left there were 3 or 4.

Ellen bought a mouse and then we went over to Sam's Club.  We just walked around and looked at things.  We didn't buy anything.  The next stop was the post office where there was a large amount of junk mail waiting for us.  Then it was a quick stop at HEB for milk.  The last stop was Circle C where Lucy did 23 retrieves.  She was really having a good time.

When we got home I decided I had to do something.  So I went out to the apartment and packed up some more stuff.  I wrapped up the dog bed and put it in the truck.  Then I wrapped up the shells and put them in the truck also.  I also did my exercises.

Over the last couple of days the DirecTV receiver has started to act screwy.  It would stop working and need to be reset.  This afternoon we tried to use it and it wouldn't work at all.  Ellen talked to them while I was in the apartment.  The bottom line is that they are going to send us a new one.  I'm glad it crapped out before we went on the road.

After packing up I took the dog to the mailbox.

After dinner we tried to use the DirecTV receiver.  We managed to get it to partially work.  Ellen spent the evening trying to watch shows that we've recorded but will lose.  It's funny.  The playback stops at varying intervals for a few seconds and then starts up again.  I gave up and have been reading and surfing.