Day 989

Ellen got up at 5:30 today.  I tried to get back to sleep, but couldn't.  Instead I dosed for about an hour and then got up.  I had breakfast and then went to the club.  It was cloudy, cool, and a little windy, so I wore long pants.

I was going to check the tower target I set yesterday, but they already had it set up.  I just waited around until time to shoot 20 ga at 8.  At the last minute they had me take out a couple of trappers to stations 8 and 9.  I started at 1, so that made me a little late.  It all worked out though.
I shot pretty poorly.  On the last station I missed 3 birds that I never should have missed.  It turned out OK though.  I shot a 39 and there was a 3 way tie for AA 1 at 40.  No punches.

After shooting I put the gun away and started finding things to do.  I counted scores and spelled a trapper for a bathroom break.  In between little chores I surfed.  I also got Ellen lunch at the roach coach.

I shot the 28 ga at 2.  I shot the first 3 stations OK, not great.  On the fourth station I started seeing double and missed three birds.  That made me pissed, and I ran the rest.  That turned out to be a mistake.  I got one or two punches from that.

When I was done I put away the gun and really got to work.  I reset the tower under Dave (from Quail Point) instructions.  Then i worked with him on the other 3 5-stands.  I didn't set any targets, but I suggested a couple of menus and did all the grunt work about getting buckets, doing menu boards, and the like.

Dave wanted menu sheets typed up for the trappers.  I stopped in at the club and asked Tucker to do it because he was doing nothing.  Big mistake.  He didn't do a damn thing even though he was doing nothing else for hours.  I ended up having to do it on a computer at the trailer.

That process was a cluster fuck.  Of my three computers only one has Notepad.  I had to get the all-in-one out.  It wouldn't do anything until it did a long update.  Then I did manage to do what I needed.  Once I had the menus, I took them out.  End of work.

My laptop, which I'm using now, quit connecting to the internet yesterday.  I tried to fix it, but since all help is through the internet I didn't make much progress.  I gave up until Ellen got home.  She got on the net and found a couple of things that fixed it.  Basically the "airplane mode" switch is disabled when it's turned on.  You have to press a special function key, which isn't labeled, to turn it back off.  Second, the wi-fi power management doesn't work correctly.  Apparently it turns off if the battery gets low and won't turn back on when the battery is recharged.  Fucking Microsoft.

By the time everything was fixed it was 10.  After a very little TV and surfing it was bed time.