Day 3031

 I woke up about 6, got up to pee, and then went back to sleep.  I woke up again about 7:30 and got up for the pet stuff.  Then it was back to bed for games.  Eventually I got up for breakfast.

After a little surfing I started today's little project.  I went out to the garage and retrieved the 1/24 car stands.  I took them to the spare bedroom and put the three cars on them.  It makes things a lot neater.  Then I continued the big project - looking for stuff on AliExpress.

It takes quite a while to find the best deal on an AliExpress item.  Their website is a little clumsy and so are the individual websites.  It can take a long time to find the minimum price on something as the prices typically vary significantly.  I filled up a whole sheet of paper with notes on prices to help me find the minimum.  Most of the time was spent looking for RC stuff  It was stuff for the Bronco yesterday.

At lunch time I turned on videos.  I was sick of AliExpress.  While surfing through things I discovered that the RC basher that I wanted to buy came in two flavors - brushed and brushless.  Then brushed version cost $75 less than the brushless.  The only difference besides the drive train was that the brushed one didn't have lights.  That's not a problem.  I can add the lights and I'm panning on replacing the drivetrain anyway.

I was happy to find that Amain had the brushed version.  It was out of stock elsewhere.  In addition the $25 monthly coupon worked on the brushed version, but not on the brushless.  That meant that in total the brushed version cost $100 less than the brushless.  That means that if I buy the electronics during the AliExpress sale I'll end up saving about $15 over the cost of the brushless version.  I'll have better motor and ESC as well as a receiver that matches my transmitters.  I ordered the basher today.  Hopefully I'll be able to get all of the AliExpress stuff in a couple of days.

Except for the time around lunch I spent most of the day on AliExpress.  

Ellen fixed steak and rice for dinner.  I ate and went back to AliExpress.