Day 3042

 I woke up a little after 8 and got up for breakfast.  It was cold again this morning, so after some surfing I decided to work on the MT10.

I took out all of the electronics on the MT10 - servo, receiver, ESC, and motor.  I'll probably keep the servo, but the rest is going to the Hobby store in Salem.  Hopefully they have a kids program that they can use it in.  Then I replaced everything that I'd taken out with stuff that I'd purchased from AliExpress.  I didn't completely install everything because I wasn't sure what pinion I wanted to use.

By then it was warming up, so we went to Texan Eye.  They couldn't help my billing problem, but promised to contact the billing dept.  Apparently the phone system there has been screwed up and I'm not the only one who has had trouble.

After that we went to Costco.  One of the hearing appointments is on solar eclipse day and I wanted to reschedule.  Of course I couldn't get a new appointment until the end of April.  I'm still getting the test tomorrow, but I'll have to get the hearing aids in Oregon.  When I was changing the appointments on my phone I learned I have a appointment with Dr. Cox on eclipse day also.  I'll keep that one because it's at 9 and the eclipse isn't until noon.

We also bought water and digestive pills while we were there.  It was noon, so we ate at the Cajun place.  The last errand stop was Lowe's for some mounting tape for the MT10.

By then it was a sunny and fairly warm day.  We took Abby to Circle C for her run.  It was a more or less normal walk around the park.  She definitely has a lot of fun running full speed on the fields and searching through the woods.

When we got home Ellen went out to the garage.  I finished up on the MT10 and made some calculations on pinion size.  I need another pinion gear.  I thought I'd order the right one, but it has the wrong shaft size.  I ordered the right one from Amazon because I want it right away.

While I was doing that a thunderstorm came over it dropped .6 inches of rain.  It ended about 5.  I took out the garbage and got the mail.  There were three more AliExpress items.  One was the wheels for the new Jeep.

I decided to watch videos.  That lasted through dinner (chicken and rice again) an the first part of the evening.  By 9 I was sick or videos and got out the Jeep wheels.  I installed them on the tires.  That took about 90 minutes because it involved 24 large screws and 96 small ones.  My hands were very tired when I was finished.