Day 2167

 We woke up at 7:30, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  Then we left to get the mail.

We ended up stopping at the new HEB on the way to the post office.  It's impressive.  We bought a some orange juice and a salad.  The work at the Y is progressing slowly (surprise).  They have cleared a lot of space on either side of 290.

There was a lot of mail.  It totally filled a plastic mail bin.  We stood at the post office and sorted it out.  Some stuff went into the recycle.  We ended up with a ten inch stack of magazines, a stack of investment stuff almost as high, a stack of bills, and some other stuff.  We put it all in the truck and went in search of a place to do the safety certification.

There was a quick lube place on 290 by the Y.  I stopped in.  They said half an hour wait because there were two cars ahead of us.  I didn't mind, I called Hooch to talk about a letter I got about the inheritance.  It was sort of a payday loan place that loans money in expectation of an inheritance after probate closes.  It turns out the trust prevents this.  He also got a voicemail from Yo's accountant.

The call took about 15 minutes or so.  When I hung up I watched the lube place put the last car on a rack.  There were 5 guys standing around doing nothing.  I went out to ask the manage why someone isn't looking at the truck.  He gave me some shit about telling me to wait 30 minutes and that's what I had to do.  I told him to fuck himself and left.

We drove towards Dripping Springs.  We found another lube place on 290 that said 30 minutes.  I said OK and we waited in the truck reading mail until he came out.  It was 30 minutes.  We sat for a while while they did the check.  It took longer than I expected.  The guy said that most Texas counties require a smog check.  Luckily Hays doesn't.

We took the truck to Dripping Springs and got the license.  We had to wait a little time, but not much.  Then we stopped at Tractor Supply for bird seed.  I saw on the web that Home Depot had DeWalt batteries on sale.  We stopped there, bought one, and also a tool that I'd been wanting.  The last stop was lunch at the pizza place next to HEB.

On the way home we stopped at Tomlinson's for cat litter.  It's all they carry that we can buy anything else.

When we got home we started moving stuff from the trailer.  It was hot again.  I cleared out everything under the bed and put it away.  Ellen cleared out the refrigerator and the pantry.  I helped a little with that as well as moving some of the miscellaneous stuff.  I had to stop at one point and rest for a little while.

We stopped about 5:30.  I didn't feel like eating.  I turned on the TV.  It worked on broadcast.  I ignored it and read stuff and handled mail.  After a while Ellen turned on DirecTV.  Of course it didn't work.  It was getting dark, but I went out to fix it.  Unfortunately one of the adjustments broke and I had to fix it, too.  I got the antenna positioned, so now we have TV.  We still haven't looked at the Blu-ray.

The rest of the evening was watching TV, mail, and a little surfing.  All in all it was a busy day.  Tomorrow will be the same.