34F and partly cloudy @ 12:00 ... overnight low last night was 19.4F @ 06:08
A couple of days I pulled out the washer to see what was going to be involved in getting to that switch for the lid. Yesterday The Woman announced that I had fixed it, simply by looking at it. There's a bit of a joke there, as an ex-business partner (who didn't care much for computers and all things digital) used to comment that whatever piece of equipment he was having trouble with seemed to magically fix itself in my presence ...
On a related note, the right front window in The Woman's car now seems to be working. (I probably punched the wrong switch when I tried to roll it up before

)
Got the aquarium stand shimmed and leveled yesterday ... that took a little longer than I thought, but it seems stable. Also got the 10g filled up and running, with the air pump and heater connected up. Water is pretty cloudy, that could take a while clear up. Cupcake is currently @ the pet store, tasked with picking up a couple of Zebra Danios to help start cycling the 10 g aquarium.
Got the two pieces of piping for the filter plates in the 55g finished and glued up. They will connect to the supply line via a tee using a friction fit, and I filed the ends of the two pipes down last night so they would slip in the tee all the way easily. Glued up the dogleg offset on that, so the supply pipe will miss the cross-brace on the top plastic trim piece. All that's really left at this point on the plumbing is to cut the supply pipe to length and glue it together. Can't really do that until I get the plastic trim piece on though.
Speaking of the plastic trim piece I found a good tip yesterday on the internet about getting it on: fill bathtub with hot water and soak it to soften it up a little. The plastic trim is very hard/stiff ... mebbe styrene or something so I'm not real sure how well that will work. Going to crank up the hot water heater here in a bit once I've had my coffee and we'll see.
Spent several hours going over the top and back of the 55g tank with a single-edge razor blade, cleaning off the old silicone and mineral deposits. I have a product that will dissolve cured silicone rubber that I need dig up to get the last traces of it off. Also found an old can of Rust-Oleum Wood Preservative paint, in sem-gloss black that I'm going to use to paint the back (outside) of the 55g ... it's supposed to water-proof/resistant. Contains Teflon which I'm not all that keen about, but it's on the outside so hopefully that won't be an issue.
Got zero done on the backdrop ... too cold out in the garage. Might be able to get back to that tonight.
Hope everyone has an enjoyable and productive day.