November 12th

I played Warcraft until it warmed up a little, then went out and changed the fuel lines on the Vanagon.  That all went swimmingly, so I went over to the airfield (filling the van up on the way) and took the Flightstar out for a bit.  Having taken off on 15 (as that's the runway people were using) I went over to the river to see if the trees are changing colour yet (they aren't), then tootled back.  As I'd only been up for around 45 minutes, I decided to shoot some circuits.  I landed on 33 (as that's the run way people were using), then took off again on 33.  At this point the guys who'd been using 33 were gone, so everybody wanted to use 15, so I landed on 15.  I ended up doing an hour of circuits :o)  There were a bunch of PPCs out for a flyin that I didn't know anything about, and apparently they had ~50 aircraft all told.

November 9th

Oh dear.

November 7th

John's in town for a few days, so we went out to dinner.  It was good to see him, even though he's trying to convince me to buy another motorcycle (or two).

November 6th

I was too tired to go and fly, as it's cold and cloudy, so I stayed in and played Warcraft, and got a few small things done around the house.

November 5th

I got up early and headed to the airfield to cook pancake breakfasts for people.  It was pretty cold, so there weren't that many people, but there were a lot of them who sat and watched the whole of "Flying the Feathered Edge" in memory of Bob Hoover.

Vic came, and brought Joey, so we spent some time pottering around showing him things and introducing him to people.

It had been pointed out to me at the airfield that the van's leaking gas (it wasn't when I left home, or I would have smelled it), so when I got home (after letting it cool down) I took a look at that.  With the TiiCo engine, there are 2 fuel hoses in the engine compartment (compared to about 10 with the waterboxer engine), so I removed the leaking one, and figured I'd get enough hose to do both of them.  We went to the local auto parts store, where they tried to give me "fuel injector" hose that's rated at 50psi.  I ended up ordering hose from Van Cafe that's rated at over 200psi.

November 2nd

Dan's moving from San Francisco to Philadelphia, so I got up at stupid o'clock and rode in to the office to have a team lunch.  I managed to slope out early enough to get home and drop off my gear, feed Tilly and still make the EAA board meeting.  I don't remember what I agreed to :o)

November 1st

A new month, so here are the solar stats:

Power billed

Power generated