Sunday, April 26, 2026

Day 3777

 I woke up at 7:30, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  There was a bunch of stuff to do to get ready to leave so I went outside to work on it.

 I started with draining the tanks.  That went like it always does.  While I was doing it I noticed that the Starlink antenna was in the "looking for satellites" position.  The guy next to us had left, so I put it back where it was before.  I didn't move.  I unplugged the cable and put it back in.  Still nothing.  Ellen tried to reset it.  Still nothing.  Finally I decided to just get the other chores done.

The next task was to rinse off the truck.  It was splashed with mud all the way up to the rear view mirrors.  I got out the collapsible hose.  It has a neat spray attachment on the end that works really well.  I would spray a section of the body, scrub it down with the scrubber, rinse it, and then Ellen would dry it with a dog towel.  When we were finished the truck wasn't perfect, but it looked pretty good.

The third task was lubricating the trailer hitch.  I used PB Blaster on it.  I was going to put on lithium grease, but the PB Blaster seemed to make it a lot better.  We'll see tomorrow when we hitch up.

That was all of the things to do this morning so I went back into the trailer, surfed a little while, and had lunch.  We didn't shoot until 3:30, so we had a lot of time to kill.

I decided on a new project.  There's a company that makes a set of scales that tells the weight distribution of a RC car.  The kit costs $130.  It's really 4 small scales connected to a phone app by Bluetooth.  I found cheap scales on Amazon to use and made a spreadsheet that does the same calculations as the phone app.  I'll probably buy the scales when we get to Oregon.  The whole thing should cost about $35 - $40.

I finished the spreadsheet, did a little surfing, and then it was time to go to the club.  Ellen couldn't read the map and sent us to the wrong parking lot.  Fortunately someone gave us a ride.  The course was one long row and we started at station 10.  That meant we had to walk from 10 to 1.  Fortunately we got another ride.

The course was the easiest of the three.  I shot a little better.  I'd eaten more last night and ate some on the course.  I'm going to have to get used to shooting while starving.  We got lucky again at the end and got another ride back to the truck.

I "won" the auction for a Browning tool set.  I might even be able to use it.  We picked it up and ate at the club.  The menu was 6 different kinds of processed meat.  I ate some of it.  We ate with the English guy we met the other day.

We stopped at HEB on the way home for fuel and potato chips.  When we got home I backed up the truck for hooking up.  Then I put everything away.  After some videos and a nap I went to bed. 

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