1. Marc came over with Carol to help us celebrate Nathan’s bday and the 4th (on the 3rd). He convinced me it was safe to try the electric with an adapter off the house with an extension cord AND IT WORKED!!

That is until I actually cleaned and filled the battery, which then started charging (according to the Airstream Central Panel monitor) and shorted out leaving the 12V service out of commission, but the “convenience” sockets still worked. According to the manual its probably a bad battery (do ya’think? It had no water, was probably frozen uncharged, and is dated 1984). I need to buy an RV/Boat battery and find the fuse that blew. I tried a battery in the Control panel for the clock and it worked until I got the panel screwed back in.

2. Finished the first cleaning pass today. The “Greased Lightening” is a wonderful thing. You can watch the grease bubble up and just wipe it away. I went through two bottles of it between yesterday and today. I guess it was worth breaking my boycott of Walmart to get it. Thanks to the news lists and Cay/Cindy for encouraging its use. Now I have to find the Future Floor wax. I hope Ace Hardware is still in business. (found out the local Agway carries the “Greased Lightening”, yeah!)

Almost puked cleaning the bathroom. I am sure it was just road dirt, right? The bathroom ABS plastic has no luster left. It’s stained pretty badly, but mostly intact. I am going to look into taking it apart and spray painting it.

I made a list of parts to order from
Inland RV and started a receipt envelop for my first purchases (a mat for the entrance step ($8) and a 30amp-15amp converter ($5), and of course the “Greased Lightening” ($2.50 ea.)).

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