Day 2906

 I woke up a little after 8 and played games until 9.  Then it was up for pet stuff and breakfast.  It was cold, about 51 degrees.  I surfed for a while and then decided to work on the BBX.

The BBX is basically complete.  The only things left to do are install the lights and the body panels.  There are 8 lights, two head lights, 3 roof lights, two side lights, and a tail light.  The tail light is red, the rest are white.

I went out to the well house and retrieved LEDs and resistors from the train stuff.  Then I got out all of the tools I needed to do the work.  I started by cutting out the lenses for the lights.  This took a lot of time and hand fitting.  When that was done I started soldering wires to the LEDs.  The final step was assembling the lights with the LEDs inside.

The effort took the whole day.  That's because there were 8 lights to do.  It didn't help that I ended up making several trips to the well house and the garage to look for stuff like heat shrink.  I still have to wire the lights to dropping resistors and install them.  That won't happen for a few days because tomorrow we're going to an electric car/bicycle exhibition.  We went last year and it was fun.

Abby continues to ingratiate herself.  She kept bringing toys for me to play with as I worked  She also tried to sit on my lap.  At 33 pounds she's a little too big for that.  She'll be going to the trainer in3 days and I'm already missing her.  She does have a new annoying behavior.  She gets shoes from the rack by the door and tries to play keep away with them.