good new and bad news for tonight. the neighbors regrouped after the slaughter this afternoon, and are moving in like wolves. the fence is not nearly tall enough.
the food has definitely gone weird on me. i should not have built that bomb out of the refrigerator coils and battery acid. i still have some dry goods and canned food left over though, should last through the end of the week if i ration them out. low on water; the main burst a few days ago, and it's been pretty dry recently.
the good news is that i got the station wagon to start a few hours ago! it turned out just to be the starter had died. i gave it a few whacks with a hammer, and it turned over. gotta do something about that transmission, though.
i set up a little acetylene torch, got a pair of my goggles, and got to work on the body, welding a makeshift cattle pusher onto the front out of some corrugated tin from the carport. i'm going to see if i can't run a charge into it from the battery, using the alligator clips and maybe a power transformer from the downed power line.
i've already knocked all the windows out of it and installed a rollbar. it's been a pretty productive 8 hours, full days' work. i really should clear out the transmission before i go anywhere in that thing, but i can probably get that done by tomorrow.
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- 16 years, 8 months, 21 days ago