The ball launcher was misbehaving. The outside spring had at some point fractured. I tried fixing it recently, and it was fine for a bit, but it was bad yesterday during the tour. Today I ended up removing one of the chunks, as it was getting tangled in the other and making things less elastic. Works for now, but I should replace it. And since there are problems unscrewing one of the screws, maybe better just to get a new assembly?

• There’s something wrong in the swamp. I should go through all the switches there, and perhaps more generally.
• God, it’s nice having something with decent built-in diagnostics. One of the swamp switches was erratic. But poking it was enough to get things working again. Was it a bit stuck? Was there some junk wedged there? Hard to know.
• I had also noticed a problem with detecting the ball waiting to be launched. That was a bit trickier. It turns out the plunger was sitting just a shade too far forward. The external spring was weird and janky. I tried taking it all apart, but one of the screws is stuck. The external spring was in two parts, and I tried separating them. They mashed back together pretty quickly. I tried a bit of tape, but that made the ball not launch or launch weekly. So I took the tape off and everything is somehow fine?
• Long term, I should get at least the screw and maybe a whole new assembly, complete with spring.

Worked on Addams Family with Laura as a good starter project for her.

- We cleaned the playfield, replaced some elastics, and replaced some bulbs.

- She really likes the detailing for the same reasons that I do.

- She asked if there are checklists. There should be!

- I also think I should sketch out the beginnings of a curriculum.