Day 3690

 I woke up a little after 8, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  Then it was time to leave for the eye doctor.  I was a little bit worried about the roads, but they were all dry.  There was just the usual slowing on loop 1 around 290.

The doctor told me that it sounded like a visual migraine.  Apparently they can manifest like this.  She asked about stress and sleep.  The weather has been stressing me out some.  Also I haven't been getting a whole night's sleep for about a week.  I wake up early and can't get back to sleep.  She said my eye looks fine.

When that was done I went to the post office to pick up another Chinese package.  Then it was on to HEB to get much needed groceries.  The next stop was circle C for Abby.  It was in the 50's, so she had a great time running around.  It was really muddy though, so we didn't get a full walk in.  The last stop was CVS for the eye drops.  They said the drops would cost $550, so I told them to forget it.

It was lunch time when we got home.  Then I started work on the Opel.  My original intent was to install the shocks and continue with the assembly.  I looked at the sway bar installation first.  The instructions were very confusing, listing parts that weren't there and parts that weren't on the kit.  I finally worked out that some of the kit parts were there, I'd just overlooked them.  Others weren't included or mentioned.  Fortunately my parts collection had what I needed.

That process showed me that I lacked some hardware to complete the kit.  I decided not to do any more assembly.  Instead I collected all of the parts needed for the remaining steps.  That's always a pain since the parts are scattered over different parts bags and plastic part trees.  It too hours, but I managed to collect everything I think is needed except for two screws.  I'll find them when I get to that step.

I packed everything up and then it was time for dinner.  Ellen fixed salmon and rice with beans.  After dinner I decided to look into modifying my current TRX4 to have portal axles and 4-wheel steering.  It would be a lot cheaper than a complete new build.  I can't build the straight axle version because Traxxas doesn't make straight axle TRX4's any more and no one builds spare straight axles.  I've got more research to do.

I messed around on Aliexpress pricing things out until it was time for bed.