Day 3197

 I woke up about 7:15.  I couldn't get back to sleep.  I played games for quite a while instead.  Eventually I got up for pet stuff.  Then we took Abby for her standard pigeon walk.  When we got back I had breakfast.  After a little surfing I went out to the shed to work on the Mojave Grom.

I finished modifying the front light.  To do it I had to fabricate 4 small metal squares to make up a back support.  The result works pretty good, but it took a lot of time to make.  At that point I quit because it was getting hot (eventually 98).

We needed to go to Wally World for several items.  On the way we stopped for fuel, the post office, and Bauman's.  We got corn, pie, and donuts at Bauman's to take to Hooch's tomorrow.  After Wally World we ate lunch at the golf course.  Then we got money at the bank and a decorative sack to put Martha's bird feeder in.

The mounting adapter for the new TV was at the post office, so when we got home I started to switch TV's.  The process was a complete cluster fuck.  The old TV came off easily.  Unfortunately the bolts for the adapter were too long.  I had to go out to the broiling shed (remember 98 degrees)  to grind down the 4 bots with the Dremel.  After we put the TV on the mount it turned out that the mount was too high.  I had to remove it from the wall and remount it lower.  Finally the TV was slanted when we put it back on.  It turned out that the mount plate wasn't firmly in the mount.  It took some time wrestling with a heavy TV to figure that out.

I put away the tools in the shed and packed up the documentation and stand for the old TV.  The search for that stuff took a while.  Then I went outside (remember 98 degrees) to modify the new TV's box to fit the older TV.  That was a half hour wasted.  I finally just partially put it in the box and put the box in the shed.

After that I was finally done.  After 2.5 to 3 hours I was hot and tired.  I got out a Mike's hard lemonade and drank it relatively quickly afterwards.  Ellen had got the TV partially working, so I watched videos.  It's definitely better than the old TV.

Dinner was a frozen thing.  After dinner was more videos, a little surfing, and an early bed time.