Day 2313

 I woke up at 5 because my eye was dry.  Getting to the bathroom was very painful.  I had to hold onto something every step.  Putting my weight on my left foot damn near killed me.  I guess it's the definition of getting old.

I went back to bed and slept until 7.  Then it was some game playing and getting up.  My back was killing me.  I could barely walk, but I least I didn't have to hold onto things.  I hurt so bad I didn't eat breakfast, but I did do the pet stuff.

After breakfast I started looking at how I'd do the lighting for the Ryft.  I spent quite awhile on Amazon looking for things to make into LED mounts for the Green LEDs.  I didn't find anything.  Sometime during the search I came up with the idea of using servo horns.  I got out my stash and found some that would work - with extensive modification.  I also figured out how to mount the light bar, again with some modification.

I figured I could sit on the garage chair as well as the kitchen chair (actually the one in the garage is more comfortable).  I took the parts I needed and the Ryft out to the garage.

I made the LED mounts by trimming the extra horns off a couple of servo horns and then bolting them together.  I drilled out the center holes to fit a 5mm LED.  Then I sandwiched the LED in the hole.  I made two.  I think that they will work great.

I had to modify the light bar mounts.  I broke them in half, drilled out the holes, and ground them down a little.  I also had to do a little grinding on the light bar case.  I drilled two holes in the Ryft batter case to mount the bar.  The result looks good.

I took everything into the house.  That's when I discovered that I needed standoffs to mount the light bar.  That included another trip to the garage to drill out the holes in the Ryft and the mounts.  Then I installed the light.  I called a halt there.  I'll wire up the LEDs and attach them another time.

Ellen spent a lot of the day working on repainting the TRX-4 body.  She redid the masking and put some decal matching on it.

I spent the rest of the afternoon surfing.  Dinner was leftover pizza.  After dinner I looked at Youtube videos on the TV.  I also figured out how to surf on the TV.  I'm not sure how much of that I'll do.  The browser is a little clunky.