Day 648

We were up by 8 today.  After pet stuff and breakfast and some surfing I went outside to work on the Ranger radio install.

The first task was to solder 7 wires to the ends of the pigtails coming out of the radio.  That wasn't hard, but it took some time.  Then I fabricated and installed a couple of brackets to hold the face-plate side of the enclosure lid.  I had to Dremel off the screw bosses on that side to get the radio to fit.  Then It was time to install the radio in the cab.  It fits quite nicely.  The last of the morning activities was to partially install the wire loom for the speaker and power wires.  I couldn't do all of it, until I hook the power leads up to the existing courtesy light wires.

By then it was lunch time.  After lunch we did some errands.  We went to Costco to get some new Sonicare tooth brushes.  I decided to get some water, too.  Then we saw the cool foot massagers.  Ellen said that they felt like they'd help her feet, so we bought one.  Finally we bought a bunch of chips and some cookies for the Eclipse party.  We'll need to buy more stuff later.

The next stop was Walgreen's for my drugs and the bank for money.  We also stopped at Wally World to get an exercise band for Ellen.  We ended up buying a little food and some TP also.  The final stop was the post office.

We got home a little before 4.  I surfed for abut half an hour and then got bored.  I went back outside and cleaned up the work bench and put some of the tools I'd been using away.  I also used the cord from a power strip I'd bought to make a power cord for the 12V power supply I bought.  Then I did my exercises.

After dinner I was bored again.  I took the garbage to the dumpster and the bottles to the recycle.  The dog really wanted to do something, so I walked around the course with her.  It was still daylight when I got back, so I decided to wire the radio power.  I managed to get that done just before it got too dark to work.

The rest of the evening was TV and reading.  Tomorrow I'll finish wiring in the speakers and then I'll test the timer I bought.