Day 3821

 I woke up about 7:30, played games for a little while, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  Then it was off to do the wash.

It was a standard wash activity.  I sat and surfed while Ellen did the wash.  We went home when it was done.

I decided that I would price out building another scx30 out of spare parts.  I priced out what buying another car and dressing it up would cost.  Then I priced out building one from parts acquired from Amazon and Aliexpress.  The result was a little surprising.  

The "mod a purchased car" came out to be $173.  The "build it from scratch" came out to be $203.  The mod car would have a weaker motor and the scratch car would have much improved axles.  I decided to order the parts for a scratch car.  The whole effort took from the time I got home from the laundry until it was time to go to bed.  I'm sure that the scratch car will come out costing a little more since I probably forgot something.  I don't care.

Day 3820

 I forgot to do an entry yesterday.  This is going to be a short one.

It rained hard most of the day.  The wind blew very hard all day and into the night.  It blew hard enough to shake the trailer.  Abby was not happy.  On top of that it was cold also.

The high point of the day was going to Dutch Brothers (Abby got a pup cup) and doing some grocery shopping.  Other than that it was just hiding out in the trailer surfing and watching videos.

Day 3819

 I woke up a little after 6.  That was OK, I was asleep by 11 last night.  I played games for a while and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After breakfast it was surfing.  I had to kill time until CVS opened.

I decided to stop at Jones Farm and Safeway first, so we left about 9:30.  We stopped at Jones Farm long enough to buy some strawberries.  Then we went to Safeway.  It was time for milk, bananas, cereal, etc.  The last two stops were CVS for drugs and the pet store for some kitty food.

It wasn't quite noon.  Ellen had noticed that a new restaurant in Keizer had la Sunday happy hour.  We took the groceries home, surfed a little bit, and then went back.  The new place had prickly pear margaritas.  I had one.  I had shrimp appetizers and Ellen had a quesadilla.  They were both really good and on special.  We had fried ice cream for dessert.  The meal was expensive even with discounts, but we left with another meal's worth of food.

When we got home I sat down for videos.  The margarita was big and I ended up taking an hours long nap.  I felt rocky when I woke up, so I just went back to watching videos.  I was also very full from lunch.  I didn't have any dinner.

After dinner I took Abby for another 1 mile walk.  It was all I was up to.  Then it was videos before an early bed time.

I texted Hooch.  We're going to see him on Wednesday. 

Day 3818

 I woke up at 6 and gave up going back to sleep at 6:30.  I played games for a while and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  It was in the low 50's and the wind was blowing hard, so a walk was out of the question.

I surfed for a while and then decided that I needed to do something.  I decided to start by going through all of the RC stuff that was scattered through out the trailer.  I moved it all to the shed and organized some of it.  That didn't seem like much of an accomplishment, so I decided to work on the Hyper-Go.

I took it to the garage.  I'm going to keep the ESC and motor, at least for now.  The first step was putting XT60 connectors on the ESC and battery.  The battery was a little bit of a pain, but the ESC was pretty easy.  The I removed the receiver.  It was smaller than a Flysky one, so I had to remove some plastic from the inside of the battery box.  Then the receiver fit, but it was too tall.

It was lunch time so I went back inside, ate, and sat down to videos.  That turned into a fairly long nap.  When I woke up I had an idea for the battery box.  I used some Plexiglas that I had to make a spacer  that fits under the lid.  The result looks and fits well, let's hear it for the Dremel.  I quit when that was done because I need some parts.

I have stuff that I could do to the NASCAR, I just didn't feel like tearing into it.

It rained hard for a couple of hours around noon.  The wind blew constantly all day and the temperature never got above 62.  I watched videos until dinner time.  After dinner I took Abby for a short walk.  She had a good time.  She chased both a rabbit and a bunny.  She also got to play with a couple of dogs.  I got in a mile walk before I was too cold to continue.

Dinner was leftovers.  After dinner was videos and surfing. 

Day 3817

 I woke up at 7:30, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  Ellen took Abby for a walk at the same time.  I checked my phone and the Audi place said that the car was ready.

When Ellen got back we went to pick up the car.  On the way back we stopped at the factory stores.  I wanted to get new shoes.  We walked all around the stores spending money.  Ellen got a couple of shirts.  I got a high class sweatshirt and a Alice in Wonderland crystal caterpillar.  The bill was probably over $500.  Everything that we bought was on sale.  I didn't get shoes though because they didn't have the right size.

The last stop was the Thai place for lunch.  Ellen ordered me shoes on Amazon while we ate.  They were cheaper than the store. 

The last stop was See's candy.  We chose a 1 lb box of candies and then went home.

When we got home I sat down for videos.  It turned into a nap.  This is becoming a common occurrence.  If I spend the morning doing things I run out of gas about 1 or 2.  I don't know if it's because I'm old or because I'm starving.

When I woke up it was more videos.

Ellen fixed BLT's for dinner.  After dinner was videos and surfing. 

Day 3816

 I woke up at 6 and couldn't get back to sleep.  I played games for a while and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After breakfast I went out to the shed to finish the floor patch. 

It didn't take long to place the patch in the hole and screw it down.  It took longer to sweep all of the debris out the door.  I put a couple of things away and declared the job finished.

I went back to the trailer and surfed until it was time to go to Audi.  We took Abby and Cooper.  The trip was really good.  There wasn't a lot of traffic and we made good time.  In fact we were early.  They took us immediately, so we were out before the official appointment time.

We drove up to the vet.  That went well, too.  Again we were really early.  Ellen waited while I walked to the Japanese store.  I bought a few items and then walked back.  They were just getting done when I got back.  Cooper has a cone, two shaved spots on his back, and some cream to put on them.

We stopped at Freddies because I wanted to look for yogurt.  They don't carry what I want.  They did have the fiber bars on sale for less than half price.  I bought 5 boxes, the limit.  On the way home I stopped at the Wilsonville Freddies and bought another 5 boxes.  That gives me enough to get all the way back to Austin.

I had lunch when we got home.  I sat down for videos and fell asleep during the first one.  Eventually I woke up and actually watched some.  I contacted Castle and they said that they would send me a programmer.  Then I played Frisbee with Abby.

Audi contacted me.  They said that fixing the AC would cost $500.  I said do it.  Apparently the 30K service was done last fall, so we don't have to pay for that. 

I started to do some Aliexpress shopping.  That lasted through a frozen dinner.  I spent the rest of the evening shopping, too. 

Day 3815

 I woke up at 6:30.  I decided to get up and roll out the hose for flushing the tank.  Then I went back to bed and played games for a while.  Eventually I got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After that I went out with Ellen to wash the car.

The car was filthy because the cover had blown off.  I rinsed it off with the hose.  Then both of it wiped it down with towels.  That way there wouldn't be any water spots.  Ellen went back inside and I aired up the car tires. 

With that done I went to the shed to work on the floor patch.  I measured out the patch and started cutting the floor out.  I used the mini saws-all in the shed.  I don't remember buying it, but it worked great.  I was almost done when the sewer guy showed up.  It was about 10.

It didn't take long to dump the tank because it was only half full.  The sewer guy said that he would be coming before noon.  That's great.  It means we will have the afternoons free from now on.

I went back to the patch.  I finished cutting out the hole in the floor.  Then I cut two sections of 2x4 to edge the hole.  Placing them was a real pain in the ass because I had to dig out the dirt below them.  I got them placed.  I was getting tired of bending on the floor.  I decided to clean everything up and leave screwing the patch down for tomorrow.

I was really tired by the time I was done cleaning up.  I went back to the trailer and sat in the recliner.  I napped for a while and then had lunch.  Then it was back to videos until I felt some more energy.  I drove the post office and picked up 4 packages from Amazon.  One was the new CO2 detector.  I installed it when I got back.

The install required cutting a bigger hole in the cabinet side.  I had to use a hand saw, so it took some time and effort.  The result looks and works well.  I finished up by tightening the shower head holder.  It was loose and the head kept drooping.  

Gerry came by to say hi.  Hopefully we'll get to shoot next week.

I went back to videos until dinner.  Ellen fixed BBQ hamburgers.  They were great.  Afterwards it was more videos until I got bored and took up surfing.

Ellen called the vet in the morning.  Cooper is going to the vet after we drop off the Audi.