Day 1129

I woke up at 8:15 today, laid in bed petting animals for awhile, and then got up.  I did the pet stuff and breakfast.  Then it was off to Lowe's to get some trim wood and a cutting tool.

We spent some time in Lowe's looking for a special package they had for the cutting tool.  I finally looked on the web and learned that it was out of stock in all of the Lowe's around us.  So I went to the Home Depot website.  They said "low inventory, go to store".  So we went to Home Depot.

The Home Depot didn't have the package either.  The "bare" tool cost $140.  Home Depot had another package for $180 that had the cutting tool, a drill, a drill driver, two batteries, and a charger.  Go figure.  So we bought that along with some blade for the cutter and the trim wood we needed.  The wood was pre-painted, which is really nice.

We made a brief stop at Michaels to get a package of D rings to attach to the Audi trunk organizer.  That way I can bungee it in and it won't slide around like it does now.  We were going to stop at Freddie's for a really late lunch, but they've gone tits.  So we just went home.

After lunch I went out to the garage.  I measured out the pieces I needed and carefully marked the lines for the left and back sides of the bead board.  Then I cut the live edge and trim pieces for the left side.  I also did a 45 degree cut on one end of the back side trim.  That made a picture frame like connection with the left edge trim.  It looked pretty good.  After that things went a little south.

I needed to attach a piece of scrap wood inside the kitchen cabinet so the nails for the trim didn't poke into the cabinet.  At first I tried the nail gun.  It didn't work because the nails pushed out the unsecured end of the wood.  So I ended up removing them all and using screws.  Then I cut a whole bunch of spacers to put behind the trim.  I got three nailed up before I realized I'd cut them too wide.  I removed the ones I'd nailed up .  It was 5:30, so I decided to call it a day.

While I was in the apartment Ellen was putting the D rings on the organizer.  When I came in she started to fix dinner.  We had Tragerized potatoes and steak with salad.  Because she didn't start preparing anything until I came in we didn't eat until after 7.  That was two late meals today.

After dinner it was football.  Ellen tried to watch TV in the bedroom, but when she turned on the TV it killed the DirecTV in the living room. This has happened before.  After the game I tried to debug it.  I discovered that just turning on the TV, even when it wasn't connected to the DirecTV box, caused the problem.  I also discovered that the asshole that wired the place had all of the bedroom and living room outlets on one circuit.  I tried using the bathroom circuit to power the TV, but that didn't help.  Any more debugging will involve a longer extension cord and/or the TV in the apartment.  It was after midnight, so that will wait until tomorrow.

I've been obsessing all day about the truck.  I'm not looking forward to talking with them tomorrow.  I'm afraid they've damaged the injectors while they were "testing" them and are trying to get me to pay for new ones.