I woke up at 8 and played games for a while. Then it was up for pet stuff and breakfast. After that I surfed for a while and then went up to pick up packages at the gate.
Then packages contained the stuff that I needed to modify and mount the cat light that the nephew had given me. I started by crawling under the table in the corner of the kitchen. I rearranged all of the plugs using the new power strip. There are two now - one controlled by a timer and one plugged into the wall. Both have switches so that I can turn them off when we leave.
When that was done I got out the soldering iron. I cut the power connector off the cat light. I also cut one of the connectors off the power cord that had come. Then I soldered the cat light wires to the power cord. I insulated everything with heat shrink instead of electrical tape like the original. Finally I mounted the cat light to the top of the window shade with mounting tape. I used the wire mounts that had come to hold the wire along the side of the window frame. The result looks pretty good.
After that I didn't feel like doing another project, so I went back to surfing. About 12:45 we left for the doctor. The appointment had been cancelled. They left an voicemail on Ellen's phone, but she hadn't bothered to listen to it. The new appointment is next Monday.
The next stops were Waterloo for lunch and HEB for groceries. The parking lot at HEB was almost completely full. It was really difficult to get a space. The last stops were Walgreen's for Ellen's drugs and a gas station for fuel.
When we got home I started watching videos. That took up the rest of the day. The only other useful thing I did was test out the new solar yard lights. They work great. I might put them up tomorrow after we take down the tree.
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