Day 1580

Woke up at 9 and played games until 10.  There ws no reason to get up earlier, we weren't going anywhere.  After pet stuff and breakfast it was some surfing.  Then I decided to complete a long overdue task.

For two years the parts for an upper have been sitting on the top of the took cabinet in the garage.  I left them there to guilt me into assembling them.  I never did because putting one together is somewhat of a pain.  today I decided to do it.

The first step was to update my laptop.  I haven't used it since we got here.  It took over an hour to download and install the updates.  Then I took it and the DVD player to the garage.  I put in the assembly DVD to remind me what to do.

The first part of the assembly went pretty well.  I had a couple of new tools that helped a lot.  Then came the barrel nut and handguard.  I must have spent 45 minutes or more finally getting the right number of shims attached to time the handguard correctly.   By then it was almost 3, so I went in for a late lunch - frozen breakfast tacos.

Then I went out to finish the project.  The rest went smoothly, just easy to attach parts.  With the corner of the tool cabinet cleared I decided to rearrange stuff so I had more workspace.  I stacked some stuff up more neatly and moved other little used things to an upper shelf.  Now I have most of the tool cabinet top and some of the tool chest top to use as workspace.  By then it was 5, so I quit.

I went back to the house and watched Ellen's chick flick (while I played games).  When the flick was over we watched other TV.  Ellen fixed ham and macaroni and cheese for dinner.  After dinner was more TV.