Day 2024

 I woke up at 7:30 and played games until a little after 8.  then it was up for pet stuff and breakfast.  We didn't do the wash yesterday, so Ellen left to do it.  I had to stay home in case the sewer guy came by.

I decided to try to finish my message for Hooch.  I would have, except I kept finding new information.  I did make quite a bit of progress though.  I also learned that the current anti-body testst may not show positive for someone who had the disease as long ago as I did.  We'll see.

Ellen got home a little after noon.  She bought a care package from Amazon.  It had a bunch of the stuff I ordered.  The stuff translates into several projects.  Before I got started we had leftover Chinese for lunch.  We called Audi.  A mouse had chewed through a control wire.  It should be done tomorrow.

After lunch I separated the Amazon stuff into inside and outside projects.  I took the outside stuff to the shed and got started.  I didn't get very far before I had to stop because the sewer guy was here.  He was early, about 2.  It took longer than I wanted to drain the tank.  That's because the valve I had connected to the black tank sprayer is too small.  It will be replaced.

After that i went back to my projects.  I replaced the lock on the front compartment with a combination one.  That would have gone quicker if the instructions had not been wrong.  The error made me think the lock was broken.  I went through all 1000 combinations before discovering the error.  During that the power went out.  It was worrying, but luckily it came back on in about half an hour.

I also replaced the compartment latch.  It's unused, but I wanted to keep it.  The original hung down and I was always either ducking it or hitting my head.  The new latch clicks into a closed position.

The final project was drilling two holes in the pin box.  I attached an eye bolt in one to hold the brake cable when the trailer is unhooked.  The second got a holder/protector for the brake cable.  That's a lot better than having them hang unsecured.

That was the end of the outside projects.  I went inside and opened the first of the indoor ones.  It's a new clock for the bedroom.  Unfortunately It's going to take some work to get it mounted.  I wasn't open to that, so I put it away and watched TV instead.  I watched TV for the rest of the day.

IEllen fixed bacon wrapped chicken, mashed potatoes, and baked beans for dinner.  It was really good.