I woke up about 8, played games for a little while, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast. Today was a sewer day, so there was nothing to do until the guy showed up.
Ellen went out to the shed and did some masking on the body for the RC car. I spent time inside watching videos on soldering and looking at examples of body paint scheme and wiring layouts. I showed some of the paint schemes to Ellen and we worked out a general plan.
I was going to do some soldering, but first I had to take apart the soldering iron. It doesn't get very hot anymore. That's not surprising, since I got it at the Tek surplus store 40 years ago. God I'm old. The iron was dirty and rusty. I cleaned it all out inside, but it is still far from optimal. The tip is about history.
I went back inside and looked up new tips. They are rare, but Amazon had some. While looking I found that the spiffy soldering iron I have in Texas was on sale for Prime Day. I ordered one of those, too. Everything is coming in a couple of days. I may solder connectors while I'm waiting with the old iron.
We took Abby out and did another session of calling her between us. It went pretty well.
After that all there was to do was surf and wait for the sewer guy to show up. He came about 4. I tried a new approach to flushing the tanks that got him finished a lot sooner. Then I spent a lot of time trying to get the tank as clean as possible. I didn't really improve anything. By the time I was finished it was 5 and too late to go to Hooch's birthday dinner in Portland.
Ellen had gone to the outhouse. I had Abby out when she got back, so I let Abby off lead to go see her. Ellen didn't bother to stop Abby, so Abby kept going towards station 3. She was past there when I called her back. She turned around and came back. That was great.
Dinner was frozen pizza. After dinner was some videos and a movie. The movie played well even though Starlink throttles us from 6 to 10.
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