Day 3346

 Last night's sleep wasn't particularly good.  I had a fever and it took over an hour to get to sleep.  Then it was a light sleep with some distressing dreams.  Finally I gave up and got up at 7.  I did the pet stuff, had breakfast, and did a little surfing.  Then we left for Dripping Springs to get the truck's batteries replaced.

The truck BARELY started.  If it had been a cold morning it probably wouldn't have.  I think we stopped at every light from home to the repair place.  We did get there about 8:30.  We spent about 2 hours surfing while the work was being done.  After $650 we were back on the road.

We stopped at Dutch Bros on the way back.  I needed it after the bad night and early start.  Then it was ACE for bird seed.  We noticed that the new Italian place was open, but it was too early for lunch.  We went to HEB instead and bought some stuff for future dinners.  Then we went back across the street and had lunch at the Italian place.

The food was pretty good, but a little expensive.  The portions were big.  We both ended up taking home about half of it.  When we got home Ellen started watching a chick flick.  I began making up the Amain order.

My original goal was to get a $50 order of paint and some small stuff.  Then I ran across a $30 charger that I wanted.  Following that I saw on a vendor's website that the they were planning on passing the tariff charges onto the buyer.  Finally Ellen showed me a news item that says the low value Chinese shipments (Aliexpress) have been stopped.

That changed my goal.  I decided to get whatever was necessary to hot rod the micro-b that I'll buy when it's available.  That involved a lot of time investigating options.  Eventually I decided on just buying the motor and ESC ($120).  I'll wait on the receiver until I have it in hand.

The last stop was configuring the order.  I had coupons for $100 and $125.  I had $180 in merchandise.  I needed to divide up things into an order of at least $120 and another of $100.  That meant finding $20 more stuff that I could really use.  That  took more time.  By the time I was done it was after 6.

The rest of the evening was videos.  

One more note.  Two of the items I ordered in my last Aliexpress order didn't leave China before they shut down the low cost shipments.  I bet I never see them.  Unfortunately it's for $22.