Day 3729

 I woke up at 7, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  I had an email from Wells Fargo encouraging me to activate my new card.  Then thing is, I don't have one.  I decided to call them.

I spent a long time on terminal hold before talking to someone who couldn't help me.  Luckily they transferred me to someone who could.  He explained that the card may have just been delayed and to call on Friday if I haven't received it.  He also explained how the $200 thing works.  After three months we'll get a $200 credit on the card.  We'll have to use it the month it appears. 

After that I went out to work on the trailer.  I had a rough idea of how I'd finish the jack, but no clear plans.  Having the 3mm threaded rod helped a lot by letting me try out different things.  I started out by using the hacksaw to cut a support post out of some aluminum stock.  Then I got a cable clamp for my railroad stuff to use to attach the upper tube to the post.  I attached the post to the trailer frame which allowed me to finalize the length of the bottom tube.  That's when I realized that my "design wouldn't work because the 3mm rod wasn't captured vertically.

I decided to walk around the place while I tried to come up with a solution.  Abby wouldn't do anything except sit in the garage with me.  I had to walk.  While I was walking I came up with a possible solution.  I went back to the garage to implement it.  As I was about to start I came up with a better, simpler, solution.  YEAH.  I decided to implement it after lunch.

I did a little surfing after lunch and then went back to the garage.  My simpler solution worked fine.  That allowed me to finally do the final assembly of the jack.  I attached the foot to the bottom of the jack and called it a day.  The final result works well and looks pretty good.

I think what I have left to do is mount the box and winch and do the wiring.  The new weather station came today, so installing that will take priority. 

I  went back inside the house.  Ellen was watching chick flicks so I read a couple of magazines and did some surfing.  When she was done we watched videos together.  I might have taken a short nap.

Ellen fixed pork chops for dinner.  I spent the whole evening watching videos.