1) Yesterday I got reminded the back, while vastly improved, is still not quite healed.

The sciatic nerve (the main trunks that control the muscles in the legs) are still adapting. The right side decided it wanted to remind me things are still slowly adapting/healing by bumping a little bit on Saturday, the result of a several hour "shopping crawl" walk-about in an antiques centre we visited for my wife's birthday. A couple Tylenol and things under control.

Yesterday, she wanted to wash the daily drivers, vacuum and wipe down the interiors too, and suddenly the dam thing really slammed. A highly unpleasant reminder that its very easy with the progress made to feel things are "normal". Then it's just as easy to overdo things and get a lesson in exactly how long the nerves take to acclimate to their new situation.

2) On the model railway, I've written the next operations scenario we'll use when the ops club meets in July, the writing of which will suck the brain out through the keyboard fingers, followed by repeated tests and polishings before we run it as a group. It's rewarding, but a mental death-march of some week's focus. Once done, proofed, and run for the first time, the book gets shelved with the others already created, thus we have a growing library of scenarios to choose from each time we meet.

As far as the railway itself, the creativity is pretty much used up on that project, so a nice relaxing and mindless ongoing project is to improve and add to the basic scenery. I've been making trees: some smaller ones at about ten to fifteen feet or so...


...to some big 60-footers


3) Meanwhile, the sorting of the old Sub'y continues. In this case the car has been sitting for an extended period after the engine had its refresh and it was determined the gearbox was to be replaced. That done, now there are little things needing freshened up to get the car back in the swing of things, the latest being what I am guessing is the brakelight switch that also serves as the interlock for getting the gearbox out of park.

My gut still says it will wake up to be a reliable daily driver, but needs some patience for its current foibles, fixing them one by one much like I'm used to with my old British cars.

I'm finding myself learning about older Sub'ys and that there is an active community of folks who prefer them to the modern offerings and share their knowledge and experiences on internet forums in a like manner to the British car community. I don't know why that didn't occur to me there would be such a thing until I started searching about regarding the waking of this one.