Saturday was a shopping day.

I gracious offered to chauffeur my Wife around, with the caveat that I was not going to enter any of the stores -- I was going to work on the car.

So that's what we did. She went inside and competed against vast hordes of sale-crazed ladies, digging through enormous piles of boots-on-sale, while I quietly worked on the car, in a parking lot 2.5 miles from the store -- because there were so many hordes of people that drove there.

Here's my list of accomplishments:

- I mounted the cup-holder (made of wire and with designs of sunflowers) with a custom bracket to the dash area in front of the passenger seat

- I covered some bare wires, briefly searched for the fault in the turn signal lines, and then just installed an auto-reset circuit breaker instead. Turn signals now work

- I ripped out the 120-volt led that I thought would do a better job of dash illumination than it did and replace it with two, red 12-lamps. Now the dash is lit up at night. Spectacular.