5/27 - 10pm

I guess I haven't updated lately? we finally got done putting the new shingles on the house, 22 squares, that's a buttload of shingles...and the roof is kind of wierd, so it went slow...we also had to remove the old ones and they were two layers thick over part of the roof. And it's a two story house, etc.

The kiddos have been working on the underwater robot, there's a competition in phoenix on the 9th they are going to, and they just started working on it about a week ago. Fortunately it is kind of simple to get it working, they bought a kit that went together pretty easily. it has 3 motors for driving around, a PVC pipe frame so it's cheap and easy to assemble, and a video camera and light. The camera gave them the most trouble so far, getting it sealed up from water.

Now they're working on the proportional speed control so they can drive it more easily, toggle switches are a bit touchy.

wife took two of the boys to see the pirate movie. Not for me, thanks anyways.

we have a kind of small swamp cooler a friend gave me a while back, never installed, side draft, but I think it's bigger than a window unit. I was thinking of putting it in the shop, but it really isn't hot enough to need it, the shop is so well insulated.

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