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Yesterday I worked on the White. I hammered a flange into the end of a bit of tubing, drilled a hole for a cotter pin in the other end, and voilà, a pivot for the linkage. I made some spacers out of coiled wire and it seems to work great. The connection on the other end is not so sanguine. I tried the original spring but it doesn’t work too well in this alignment; an additional bar pivot works okay for pulling but obvs not for pushing; next I’m trying a sort of staple-shaped doohickey that should capture the business end of the lever mechanism while minimizing backlash.

Snack, finished Universe, then dinner, scrabble (630!), and picked back up the Winx series on Netflix. Snack, sleep, dreamt of a new house in an incorrect, not-bumpy West Seattle with loads of wraparound porches and weird neighbors who solved their drainage problems by digging ditches through our yard, digital micrometers, dishes going missing like socks, religious enclaves, riding down one-lane roads on a sortof pushcart.

I started reading Mr Kiss And Tell by Rob Thomas, book two in the Veronica Mars series. It’s better at tracking multiple plotlines than the first book, but they changed readers and this one uses a much more feminine voice for Mack, which is pretty jarring.