Drill Baby Drill & Sprinkle Me This

My hand is still aching from manually screwing in the Garagemaid Easy Wall Slat Wall Kit, and that was like several days ago, so I decided it was finally time to break down and get a decent drill. But didn't want to spend a lot of money, because it probably won't get used very often. I mean, I've survived 10 years without one.

So this morning I picked up an Drill Master 18 volt cordless drill & flashlight set at Harbor Freight. They had it advertised on the website for the sale price $18.99 (normally $29.99), so I called our local store to see if they had the $19 drill and flash light set there, and they did, but what the guy neglected to tell me was that they didn't have it for $19, they had it for $24.99, and to get it for the website price I needed to bring in a printout of the page, even though it's from their own website.

Quick sidebar... www.harborfreight.com is their website, is it not? Because that's what I went to, but I also see there is a another, different website at www.harborfreightusa.com, and they have the same drill & flashlight set for $24.99... so what's going on? Do they really have two different websites? I thought Drill Master was the house brand of Harbor Freight, so that would also indicated they are the same company with two different websites. I don't know, it's weird.

Anyway, so I got that, but they wouldn't honor the 20% coupon I had because it was considered price matching or something like that. I also bought some drillbits, but didn't even think to tell her to then use the coupon for those, and she didn't just do it as a lot of clerks would. This realization came when I got home, and I know I could have gone back but really, getting 20% of $3.99 hardly seems worth it. Oh, and I did get the free super bright LED flashlight that I had a coupon for. I thought it'd be a piece of junk, but it's actually pretty descent, giving off a lot of light.

In the backyard, I turned on the main water line and my PVC repair seemed to hold. I then manually turned on one of the valves and the sprinklers came on, but then when I turned the knob back to the off position, the sprinklers just kept going. I then tried the next valve, and same thing happened, so had to shut off the main line again. I read online that I'll most likely need to take them apart and clean them, as it's probably some sort of little clog causing the problem. They are old, but seems unlikely that the valves would just happen to fail all at the same time.

My wife's replacement MP3 player, the Sansa Fuze, arrived today. Her other one was sent back to Sandisk because it wouldn't stop giving the white screen of death. Lets hope this one fares better.