Day 879

Up at 8 again today, but it took some effort to get up.  Then it was pet stuff and an abbreviated breakfast - I forgot to buy bananas yesterday.  I surfed the first part of the morning away.  Then I went to the apartment to finish making it ready for the nephew.  I cleaned out the closet and moved the spare towels onto one of the new laundry shelves.  They should have plenty of shelf space.  The dresser is empty, but it's also not very big.

Some of the closet stuff had to go upstairs.  So I measured out what I needed to add some more decking and enclose the wires that you have to climb over at the top of the stairs.  Then it was off to Lowe's.  They are open on Easter.

The first stop was Circle C where I fast walked around the park.  I was going to stop at HEB, but they were closed.  I went to Lowe's and got the lumber I needed.  Boards aren't really expensive, but plywood sure is.  The place was pretty deserted.  I used chip board.  On the way back I stopped at Randall's for bananas.

There was a fair amount of traffic.  Loop 1 was backed up to Davis, so I got off there and drove down Beckett to Slaughter.  I suspect I'll be doing that a lot in the next few years.

When I got home I had lunch.  Then I got to work in the apartment.  Everything went pretty smoothly except for one split 2x4.  The result looks and works pretty good.  It was hot up in the attic though, 84 degrees outside.

I got done about 3:30 and went back inside to surf.  I started to look at the build sheets that the Audi guy in Wilsonville showed me.  It turns out that the A5 Sportback config we bought is exactly the one I would have purchased if I'd been specing one out.  I spec'd out an A4 also.  It comes in cheaper, but mainly because it lacks the ventilated seats and the adaptive suspension.

I had dinner and then did a little online Audi shopping.  The A5 prices I found matched the build sheet.  The A4 prices did not.  Across the country the A4 Prestige models appeared to have two option packages that should be included in the Prestige package added on separately.  That amounted to $4,200 in options that appeared to be billed twice.  I emailed the Wilsonville guy to ask about it.

After spending hours on this, I surfed until it was time to go to bed.