I may be losing my mind. Tonight after dinner I went out the to TJ, disconnected the ground cable from the battery and connected my amp meter to both the battery terminal and the cable using alligator clips. Previously, I had just be touching the leads to the cable and the battery.
Previously, I had determined that when i pulled fuse # 26 for accessories (interior lights) that I could get the parasitic drain to go to zero. Before I turned on my meter, but after disconnecting the battery, I got in the Jeep and pulled the dome light bulbs (2 of them) out, shut the door and turned on my meter.
When I connected the first alligator clip to the meter lead, on the 20 amp setting, I got an initial reading of 0.3 and as I was watching it, it went to zero in about two seconds. Thinking it was a mistake or lose connection, I rechecked the alligator clips and cycled the meter on and off. When I reconnected the lead to the meter, the exact same thing happened, after two seconds the reading went to zero.
I then got in the Jeep and inserted one of the two dome lights, since the meter was on the 20 amp setting, I left it connected. When I inserted the one dome bulb the reading was 2.4 amps. As I closed the door and the lights slowly dimmed the reading went to zero. So I inserted the second dome bulb, after it was inserted the amp reading was something like 3.5 amps, but as I shut the door and the lights dimmed, the reading went to zero.
Now I am not complaining that I have no parasitic drain, but scratching my head at my earlier results and my battery issues. Now that it is fully charged I am going to drive it for a while every day for a week and see if I have a repeat of the dead battery issue.