Day 2593

I woke up at 8, played games for a little while, and then got up for pet stuff.  After that it was time to put away the Christmas stuff.

I got the tree and ornament boxes out of the garage. Then I took the ornaments off the tree while Ellen packed them away.  When the tree was stripped I went out to take down the outside lights.  Ellen kept packing.

When I got back Ellen was still packing, so I took down the tree and packed it away.  By then she was done, so I took the boxes back to the garage.  Ellen got out the vacuum cleaner and vacuumed the kitchen and living room.  The last step was moving the oriental case back to where the tree was.

After that it was surfing until Melissa came over to say that they were ready to go to the park.  I loaded the Kraton and Fireteam into the truck and we left.  The weather was wonderful - 70 degrees and sunny.  John thought it was a little hot.

When we got to the park I discovered that the batteries in one of the controllers were dead.  I had John drive the Kraton for a while, but I think he was a little intimidated.  He turned it over to me.  I had a great time with it.  It's fast and handles really well.  I even managed to do a few mild jumps with it.

After a while I switched to the Fireteam.  It wasn't as much fun.  It's a little slower than the Kraton and not as controllable.  Also it's hard to see which direction it's headed in when it's far away.  Finally it's really nose heavy.  That makes it harder to control on jumps.  I crashed hard several times attempting jumps that I did easily with the Kraton.  I ended up breaking the body in several places.  Also it stopped, either because the batteries were dead or thermal, I'm not sure which.

After everything was put away we went for lunch.  John, Melissa, and Ellen went to Fireman's.  I went to the pizza place next door.

When we got home it was football time.  Today was NFL.  We watched portions of two games, one full game, and half of another.  After that we called it quits.  John went home and I watched videos.

One note.  We got out an ice crusher and made margaritas for Melissa and daiquiris for me.  They were good.  I also had a margarita.  That special tequila I had is really good.