Up at 11:30 AM today.

Will be helping retrieve low-flush toilets for S. in anticipation of installing them tomorrow for some extra cash, then finally getting back to the scooter, which has been continually put off for several days due to home improvement projects/housemate mollification.

It's Going Away!

My Mom's old Mazda 626 has been a huge thorn in my side for over six years. For various reasons of repair, paperwork, paperwork, laziness, and paperwork, I haven't been able to get rid of it. A fair ad for it in a paper might begin:

"1995 Mazda 626, non-functional eyesore, rat feces levels in empty battery tray must be seen to be believed!"

Joseph helped me muscle it out from behind the fence where it's main purpose has been to 1) be In The Way and 2) allow Loki to hover mysteriously at the top of the fence to bark at passing pedestrians.

I just submitted the form to 91.7 KOOP to come and fucking get it! Soon it will be GONE! I will have to throw a PARTY!

It will be the Best Thing Ever.

I would have given it to KUT, but I hate their ultra-annoying vehicle donation program commercial so much I decided to give it to someone *else*, and then tell them why I did it.

Thirty-Two Point Five Volts, Baby!

I got most of the Major Wiring done on Rupert today. I added the extra terminals to allow for checking and charging each battery separately, completed the Satan's Tetris of getting all the new not-quite-exactly-the-same-as-the-old-batteries cells into place, and discovered the longest cable was mysteriously about 6" short. I suspect the actual arrangement of the cables inside the machine was probably slightly different than the diagram. trippedbreaker is looking into whether he can make me a new one from the supplies people who work on electric vehicles professionally just have lying around. If not, I'll build my own tomorrow. In the meantime, I completed the circuit with jumper cables, and the correct total pack voltage of 12V x 5 batteries = 60+V is showing on the meter!

There's still substantial assembly and wiring left, but I can probably complete it in one day once I have some free time. Likely I'll have a functioning scooter by this weekend.