Day 3702

 I woke p at 7:30, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  Then I sat down to design how I was going to mount the springs on the trailer.

I worked for quite a while making sure my design matched the springs.  This was something that I couldn't do until I had them.  When I was done I went out to the garage to start installing them.  I mad good progress at first.  However once I had the first set installed I discovered that I'd need shims.  That wasn't something I was able to see until it was assembled.

It was lunch time so I went back inside for something frozen.  I did a little surfing and then went back to the garage.  I had to take apart  part of what I'd assembled, and putting in the shims wasn't easy, but eventually I got the first  set installed on the trailer.

That's when things went to shit.  I got the second spring set partially assembled and then started measuring and drilling the holes.  I though I'd done a fine job until I tried to put the springs on.  That's when I discovered that I'd measured the positions of the holes wrong.  I'd ruined the rail.  I got my last piece of rail material and cut it to size.  After measuring twice I cut lit half an inch too short.  I have no idea how that happened.

I cut a patch for the rail and installed it.  Then I measured and starting drilling the holes.  The first two holes were fine.  The drill walked on the next two and ruined the rail.  I didn't have enough material to patch together another.  I quite in disgust.

When I got back to the house an Aliexpress email said a package had been delivered.  Yeah.  I surfed until dinner.  Ellen fixed mac and cheese with sausage.  I waited until traffic died down and then we went to do errands.

We stopped at Lowe's and got more rail material.  Then we stopped at a pet store to get something rubber to put under the "Christmas tree".  I'm pretty sure the top of the cabinet is ruined, but there's no reason to make it worse.  The last stops were the post office and HEB for milk and bananas.

When I got home I opened the Aliexpress package.  It has the parts I need to install the Opel sway bar.  I plan on doing that tomorrow.  I make just ignore work on the trailer tomorrow.