Day 3025

 I woke up a little after 8, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After that I sent an email to the Bronco guy agreeing that it was time for Dan to pick it up.  Then I did a little surfing.

After that I started sorting out and putting away all of the extraneous hardware and pieces that I'd collected while working on the three 1/24 vehicles.  It too quite a while to put the contents of a lot of small bags into the right places in my hardware containers.

While I was doing that Ellen said that she was going to put gas in the car and get cat food.  I said fine.  I finished up the sorting and did some surfing while I waited for her to come home.  I was planning on taking Abby with her when she went to archery.  That way Abby could run around a new soccer field.

Eventually I realized that she wasn't coming back.  She decided to go directly to archery.  I was pissed.  Since I couldn't exercise Abby, I decided to put the new servo in the Defender.  Unfortunately the new servo wouldn't fit in the brass servo holder.  I took them both out to the garage.  It took me about an hour with the Dremel and a file to make the servo fit.

When I tried to put everything back together I discovered that there was no way to use the brass servo holder.  The larger servo didn't leave enough room to attach the holder to the axle.  The servo wouldn't even work with the stock servo holder.  I was not happy.  Now I have an additional micro servo that I don't need.

I put everything back together as it was except I used a metal servo horn that I'd bought.  I took the opportunity to set up the servo and horn to make adjusting it as easy as possible.  However, when I finished the assembly I didn't adjust the servo.  I was too disgusted and mad at both Ellen and the jumbo size "micro servo".

Ellen showed up a little later.  We both had a very late lunch.  Then we took Abby outside to give her a little exercise.  I threw the bumper until she got bored.  Then we took the rubber donut water toy to the pool and played with Abby there.  She had a great time doing both.  Then we took the donut back to the backyard and threw it for Abby there.  It makes a great fetch toy because it bounces all around.

I noticed that the water leak is getting worse.  I'm going to call a plumber tomorrow.

There was no dinner, just a snack.  I spent the evening watching videos and doing a little surfing.