Day 1964

 I woke up before 8, but played games for over an hour before getting up.  After breakfast I went outside to work on the bike rack.  I started by cutting the threaded rods to size.  If they were 2 inches shorter I could have used one instead of two.  When I got them installed they definitely made a difference.  I also added reinforcements to the center post.  Now it doesn't wiggle.  That ends my work on the rack.

When I got back inside I spent a lot of time looking for a camera for the back of the trailer.  I didn't find one that I liked.  So I had lunch instead.

When lunch was done I went to the truck and got the CTS2.  I hooked it up to the computer and started an update.  It took a long time.  When it was done I took it back to the truck.  When I turned on the CTS2 it said turn on the truck.  When I did the CTS2 reported a OBDII error and asked if I wanted to continue.  I said yes.  It completed the startup but didn't display many PIDs and wouldn't turn off when I turned off the truck.  I messed around for awhile (including a factory reset) and finally figured out that it meant turn on the ignition, but don't start the truck.  When I did that everything worked normally.  I still had to reenter the PIDs I wanted to look at.  It took a long time because their UI sucks.  I did get some new ones I wanted though.

After that I went back to sorting pictures.  I worked for hours.  I've gone through well over a thousand pictures and cataloged 475 of them.  I have a lot to go.  I just got tired and quit.  I started working on the trip plan instead.  I didn't get very far because I just didn't have much energy for it.  I do have a couple of ideas that I'll expand on tomorrow.

The next thing was to look at the investments.  I couldn't find the right password file, so I turned on the Surface machine.  I'd only given it a password, but it wanted a PIN.  Whatever the PIN was I didn't have it.  To make things more fun the thing kept turning itself off if it hadn't seen a key stroke in 60 seconds.  It took a whole lot of work including signing onto Microsoft (I forgot that password, too), emails from Microsoft, and many reboots to sort everything out.  Now it has a PIN and is updated for the trip.

Ellen fixed pizza for dinner.  After dinner I decided to deal with an old email telling me to set up a health insurance account.  That was another hassle.  The stupid website didn't like the user name I chose.  It just wouldn't tell me that.  It just refused to set up the account.  I finally figured that out.  When I logged on the data the site gives me really isn't useful.

During the Surface fiasco I found the current password file.  I made a copy on the Surface.  That allowed me to look at the financial report, something I'd started to do hours before.

To cap off today's hassle factor on two occasions we couldn't find Cooper.  We couldn't figure out how he would have gotten out.  It turns out that he was on the shelf above the washer and dryer.  The first time he was near the edge.  The second time he was hiding where we couldn't see him.  He's a piece of shit.

I didn't get done with all the BS until after 9.  The rest of the evening was videos.