Today was a failure.
Had to stay up all night to take my sister to the airport at 3 AM. Got home from that at 5:45 and went to sleep for the day. Set my alarm for 12 thinking six hours of sleep would be plenty. Unfortunately I slept straight through my alarm and woke up at 3 PM...
After household chores were done I made it to the shop to load up the block by 3:45. Then I discovered some of the gallery plugs weren't hex, they were the original square drive. Making a tool for that ate up 20 minutes of time and I was loading at 4:15. Block made it in and strapped down by 4:30. That should have given me time to get to the machine shop by 5:30. Unfortunately my dumbass forgot they close at 5:00 on Fridays and I70 was completely screwed. Even if they had been open at 5:30 I wouldn't have made it.
But this has given me time to reflect.
I'm still $1000 away from having this thing on the road. And then I still have the floor and interior to deal with. So call that another $2000 by the time I either buy a gas welder or pay someone to put the floor in. So we'll call it three grand before I leave for Montana in 65 days. That just isn't going to happen. I don't have the income for that.
I think I need to cut my losses, store my best parts, and buy a reliable POS. Then come back to the hobby when I have a place to live and work on my BEEP. Anyone want to buy the shell of my broken dreams?
Gabe, "reformed" Jeep hoarder.