Day 3050

 I woke up about 8 and played games for a while.  Eventually it was up for breakfast.  It was a windless day, so when I was finished I went out to poison the environment.

The whole effort was a shit show.  The first step was the setup - put the batteries in the mower and tractor and get them out of the storage building.  That's when I noticed that the tires on both the mower and the sprayer needed to be pumped up.  All of this took a lot of time that I could have avoided by doing it earlier.

I filled the sprayer with a little wire and tried the pump.  It didn't work.  I tried hitting it with a rock, but that didn't help.  That necessitated a quick trip to Harbor Freight.  I bought a new sprayer for $100.  It took a while.  Their computer was down, so they only took cash.  The bigger problem was they had to get the sprayer from the back.  I couldn't get anyone to go get one even though some of them were standing around with their thumbs up their ass.

Abby was really disappointed.  Ellen had put on her collar, but we didn't let her out of the car.

When I got home I needed to move the pump from the new sprayer to the old.  Before I did that I decided to hit the old pump with a hammer.  It started working.  However, when I tried to spray with it the flow was tiny.  That was a waste of time.

I transferred the pump and wand from the new sprayer to the old.  That's because the new one didn't have wheels.  Fortunately the new pump was an exact replacement.  That was the only good thing all day.

By then it was 91 degrees and I was hot, tired, hungry, and thirsty.  I went inside and had a sandwich.  Then it was back outside.

I started to spray the lower parking area.  The spray started getting weaker and the pump finally stopped.  Fuck.  That was it for the day.  I put the battery on a charger and it started charging.  I'd charged the battery a week ago.  By then it was 3.

I went inside and took a shower.  After that it was surfing for a short time.  Then I used on of the Velcro straps to attach the RC speed reader to the dog.  We took her outside to play fetch.  It was over 90 though and she really didn't want to.  She did get up to 18 mph though.  The speed reader has a bug though.  Once you turn it on you can't turn it off.

I also programmed the new gate openers.  They both worked.  I guess there were two things that went right.

Ellen fixed turkey and noodles for dinner.  After dinner was videos.