I woke up a little before 8 and played games. After some time I got up for pet stuff and breakfast. I did some surfing and then went back to work on the contraption.
My attempts to improve on the operation of one feature just hadn't worked out. I'd spent a lot of time on them with no improvement. I decided to go back to the original design and reexamine it. As I was redoing it the way the instructions said I realized that I had put it together wrong originally. How embarrassing. When I assembled it correctly everything worked fine.
There was one final thing to do. There was an odd assembly that produces an intermittent bell like sound. I spent hours trying to get it to work. I finally gave up and just made sure that it matched the instructions. As I was doing the final test I asked Ellen to come over and see if she could her a bell sound. She said of course. I'd spent all that time trying to make the contraption make a sound that I can't hear. Apparently I was successful.
After that I gave the contraption to Elle so she could attach here contraption. I cleaned everything up and got out the Typhoon Grom. I'd purchased a set of lights for it from China and I wanted to install them. They looked much better than the cobbled together ones that I'd put on it. I removed the old ones and installed the new. They look and work great. It felt good to work on something other than the contraption.
The packages from Amain were at the post office. We drove over to get them. On the way back we stopped at Culvers so Ellen could get a hamburger. I also got notifications that the two Chinese packages have cleared US customs. Yeah. I thought Trump had closed that down.
The rest of the day and evening was spent surfing and watching videos. It's getting colder. The temperature didn't get about 50 today.
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