Day 3051

 I woke up about 8, played games for a short while, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After that I surfed.  The Ukrainians mad some impressive attacks on Russia yesterday and I had fun watching them make good Russians.

Ellen had a doctor's appointment at 9:45.  After that we went to the park on Beckett. I attached the RC speed reader on her.  Then we went on our normal walk across the field and then through the wood.  We took a couple of new paths, so it might have been a little longer than normal.  When we got back the reader said that Abby had gone 3.3 miles and hi a max speed of 20 mph.  I was impressed.

When that was done we went to the post office and then had lunch at Torchy's.  The wind had gotten too high to spray, so we sat there for a while surfing and enjoying being outside.  Eventually we went home.

I'd planned on spraying, so I didn't have anything else to do.  I got out the Wrangler stuff and went to work.  First I constructed the drive lines.  It was messy, a lot of the parts had to be coated in black grease.  Then I started building the frame.  That was a large muti-stage process.  It started with attaching the suspension links.  Then building up the servo mount and on side of the front shock towers.

From there it was attaching the skid plate and servo mount to one set of frame rails.  Then it was adding the rear servo mounts.  Then it was "do the other side".  Eventually I had the frame completely assembled. The last thing I did was attach the motor and transmission to the frame.

The instructions didn't help in some cases.  They left out some of the part identifiers and in one place didn't show how the part was attached.  I even had to go the garage to get 4 screws that weren't included in the kit.  The last straw was a part was left out of the parts bag.  It's probably in another one, but it was 7 and I was too tired and hungry to go searching for it.

The next step it to build the shocks.  I can't put that off any more.

While I was building Ellen went to the grocery store to buy everything we'll need until after the eclipse.  We saw people driving rental RV's on 1826 today.  It's going to be a madhouse.  In fact the doctor's office called and rescheduled my appointment to after the eclipse.  I'd been worried about going there on eclipse day.

After dinner (leftovers) I watched videos.