Day 1228

It was a get up at 8:15, do pet stuff and have breakfast, and medicate Devon day.  It was kind of cold in the morning, but warmed up nicely.  I called the metal guy.  He said to come pick up the pole at 3:30.

I did a little surfing and then hit the music project really hard.  I looked for music archives - SD cards, thumb drives, and hard drives.  I found a large archive on a SD card.  I found two others on hard drives.  Of course they didn't match.  I spent much of the day building a master archive.  In the process I identified at least 30 albums that I still need to listen to and select good tracks from.  I'm not sure I got them all yet.  I got so involved in the project that I forgot lunch.

At 3 I left for the metals place.  Ellen didn't come along because she had to go to Hog Heaven.  They did a great job on the pole - even primed it.  Unfortunately they got a small detail wrong.  I'll have to do some cutting on it.  After looking at it I wouild have had it designed slightly differently.  I'll probably end up adding some braces to reinforce it.  The whole thing only cost $125.

I got back about 4:30.  I had to use the 290 frontage road for awhile because some idiot had crashed on 290.  When I got home I did my exercises and then went in to feed everyone.  Devon had gotten himself stuck behind the washer.  I had to use the duster to push him out.  When I got him out he was in bad shape and could barely walk and wouldn't eat.

I ate dinner (last of the red beans and rice) and waited for Ellen to get home.  When she got home I had her help me put the pole in the garage.  It's heavy.  Then we packed up Devon and took him to Emergency.  We waited there 2 hours before they saw us.  Apparently his ear is filled with fluid and he needs to see a specialist.  So we paid them $135 and took him home.

Devon was slightly better when we got him home, but he still wouldn't eat.  I did a couple of more hours on the music and then went to bed.  There was a big windstorm last night that kept waking me up.  I didn't get a lot of rest.

As a side note - Cooper has taken to sleeping with Ellen every night.  He absolutely refuses to sleep with me.  I'm really disappointed.