Saturday, January 24, 2026

Day 3686

 I woke up about 7:30, played games and then got up.  I wanted to get my prescription from CVS before the ice started so I delayed breakfast and drove there.  

The pharmacy was supposed to open at 9.  I got there at 9:10.  The doors were shut.  There was a guy inside but he ignored me.  I stood there for about 10 minutes and then left.  According to the weather reports that's going to be all of the driving for the next few days.

When I got back I turned on the light in the well enclosure and the heaters in the well house, apartment, and trailer.  The temperature was 36 and I wanted to get a head start on the temperature drop.  The temperature continued to go down slowly all day.  It's 23 at 8:30 PM and scheduled to get down into the teens tonight.  There's also supposed to be significant freezing rain.  That's started.  There's a thin coating of ice on the car. 

I'm really hoping that we don't lose power.  The power company has done a lot of work cutting back trees from the lines.  I hope that helps.  My real worry is that something will happen on the power generation side of things.  Also I don't want to have to cut down any more trees.

I had a late breakfast and then put away the remains of the work on the Mecrob spider.  Then I got out the Opel kit and set it on the table.  That's all the work that got done on it today.  I planned on doing more, but it just didn't happen.

 I watched videos for a while and then switched to surfing.  I'm kind of burnt out on video searching.  Of course I ended up on Aliexpress.  I worked out what it would cost to get parts to build a 1/10 flatbed trailer.  I also found a way to build a hot shot crawler a little cheaper.

That led to watching videos on GLP-1 and a couple of new RC cars.  I also collected some videos on the Corvair chassis.  It's not going to be a first class crawler, but I should be able to make it into a workable one. 

All in all it was a pretty uneventful day.  I hope the next 3 or 4 days are the same.  The weather guy is hinting at another cold snap in a week.  Crap. 

 

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