Day 150

I forgot to snipe the guy on ebay today. Damn. Also another guy raised the price of a locomotive I was looking at by $17. I might have bought it at the lower price. All in all a bad ebay day.

I spent the morning tying up loose ends. I installed the printer driver so I could print w/out having to ask Ellen. I just can't do it wirelessly. I also put all of the cars back in the display case that I dumped out a few days ago. Then I made the bed.

I went out and started to build up part of the layout so that I could check out the benchwork. I couldn't do much, because I lacked some of the parts I needed. I did determine that the last minute change I made would cause me to redo some stuff. It's worth it.

I'm not going to be able to use commercial tunnel entrances in two places. So we went to Hobby Lobby so I could by some foam material to prototype some. We also went to Staples for some ink. They didn't have a box for the rugrat's stuff, so we'll have to look elsewhere. We also took the dog to Circle-C to go swimming. She had a great time.

When we stopped at the Post Office the rest of my track was there. The package from Walther's with the two dump cars were there too.

After dinner I went back out to work on the layout. I put together enough to check the bench work on the corner and plateau. I redid the corner (it's finished) and repositioned the one plateau that needed it. I'll have to layout a little more track before I finalize the plateau positioning and carve out the relief areas on its bottom. That's going to be a pain.

Now I'm going to do my weekly estate sale search on Craig's list.