Day 2990

 I woke up a little before 8, played games for a while, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After a little surfing I went out to the garage to work.

I didn't get any work done on any obstacles because I decided to convert the Traxxas battery to a standard connector.  That involved a lot of wiring.  I cut an extension wire in half to use its connectors.  Then I cut the connector off the Traxxas battery.  All of the connectors were three wire connectors.  I wired one of the extension connectors to the Traxxas battery connector.  That gives me an adapter that allows me to use batteries with a standard connector on the Traxxas ESC/receiver.

Then I got a two wire connector out of my parts box.  I twisted its leads to the power leads on the other extension wire connector.  Then I wired the extension connector to the battery.  That gives me a battery with a standard power connector and a standard balance connector.  Finally I cut the Traxxas connector off the Traxxas battery charger and wired on a connector from another extension lead.  That allows me to use it as a standard charger.  The left over Traaxas went in my miscellaneous parts box.

By then it was about noon.  The weather was warm enough, but very windy.  A sweatshirt was in order.  We took Abby to the park on Becker.  I didn't want her wet because she'd get cold and I don't want being wet to be unpleasant.  The Becker park was a good choice.  We started out with the bumper on the baseball field.  Then we started walking around the bike paths that go through the wooded area.  There weren't any people and Abby was able to explore all around.

We ended up back on the concrete path near the tennis course.  I through the bumper a couple of more times, but Abby wasn't really interested.  Then we went back to the car.  Abby was great the whole way.

From there we went to Lowe's so that I could get a few things for the obstacle build.  Then we stopped at Doc's Backyard for lunch.  We needed a place where we could sit outside, but be out of the wind.  The last stop was the post office.

When we got home I read the emails from the Bronco guy.  He sent an invoice, but it was blank.  He also had some questions that I answered.

It was really too late to go out and work in the garage, so I started watching videos.  That lasted for the rest of the evening.

As a side note Devon and Abby spent quite a bit of time playing together today.  I think Devon has fun, but of course he gets tired before Abby does.  Then he just jumps up where she can't get him.