driving forward

nice little pun there!

so, last night i was all discouraged cause i had wasted another day without making progress. but my dad helped me turn around the view and realize i had found 4 or 5 new hobby shops and had a couple of new leads. that gave me a good state of mind coming into today so much so that i got up early and drove off to the new hobby shops. without my key navigation team (shaffer and unnamed female voice), i promptly got totally lost. I quickly learned both that a garmin isn't something to deal with while driving, and even when you're stopped its a sonofa bitch. (it wasn't updating my position. turns out to pick up gps satelite you had to have the kickstand open. figured that out when i read the manual ON MY COMPUTER CAUSE SOMEONE THOUGHT HAVING A MANUAL FOR THE CAR WAS A DUMB IDEA!) anyways. i did eventually make it to 2 of the 4 hobby shops (in the amount of time i should have made all 4 if i had any sort of nav team). one was a bust, but the other was a substantial success.

it was 10 in the morning, so i was literally the only one there. i learned abunch from the guys working there about boat motors and propulsion (btw daniel, this was a different one from d&J). they have a huge selection of most everything RC (which is the best part of the success, having a place to go for stuff is crucial!) and even some boat parts. i ended up deciding i should get a bunch of low end boat parts so i can start to get a feel for how it all works. I bought all the parts of the propulsion except the speed controller (cause there was no low end ESC) so in the next couple days i'll be putting together a boat motor, shaft, prop, and rudder

all very good news because i was definitely in a post-shaffer rut there for a while.
talk to you tomorrow!