April 11th

Some of the parts for the YSR arrived, so after work, I ran out and installed the horn and turn signal bulbs.  Getting there.

After a little while playing Warcraft, I threw some paint at the family room.  Just one wall, so far, I have all the time in the world to do the rest :o)

April 8th

We finished patching the paint in the kitchen, then untaped and moved everything back.  It actually looks pretty good, even though there are a few things I need to get to to patch slightly.  There's still a lot of painting to do in the rest of the house :o)

We then sat down and watched the MotoGP race from Qatar.  Well, we had to wait a little, as it wasn't finished, and the "live stream" doesn't allow you to go back ~40 minutes :o)  Still, it was a good race, so I don't feel bad about signing up for the whole year.

In the evening, we watched Immortals - not bad.  I wonder why there are so many Greek mythology moves all of a sudden?

April 7th

Vic was at some Easter SPCA thing, so I started the day playing Warcraft, then taped up the kitchen and started throwing paint.  When Vic got home, she helped me get up onto the ledges, and it was pretty much all done (first coat) in time to go and see the crazy cat ladies for dinner.

April 3rd

Vic rented War Horse.  I thought it might be something like this, but with lasers and rockets, but it's set in World War 1.  Of course, they didn't call it that back then.  Anyway, it was a decent enough movie.

April 1st

It was a weird, gusty day, so I gave up trying to convince myself to go flying, and we went and ran some errands.  I wanted to try and get some shoes while we were out, and the first place had 13 pairs of shoes in my size, none of which I liked.  Vic had 2 rows of shoes in her size - I think there were more than 13 pairs of high heels in stupid colours.  So she got shoes, but I didn't.

At home, I cut the grass, then we dug out a root that was breaking the lawn edging in the front garden.  Sheesh, that's a lot of work - maybe I should just let Scott take the tree down.

As it's a new month, here are the stats:

Electrickery billed

Electrickery generated

March 31st

It was raining and / or windy all bloody day, so I tinkered with the YSR in the garage.  I've been working on removing all the 6V components, and installing 12V stuff I have.  I've put in an LED tail light bulb (that should probably be replaced, as it's not very bright) and LED headlight bulbs (that are surprisingly bright - I might put one incandescent bulb in for the high beam though).  I thought I'd found a wiring problem when the turn signals caused the head and tail light to go out, but it's just my little test 12V power adapter can't cope with the extra 20W of bulbage.  I've sat down and ordered LED replacements for the warning lights in the speedo (except the oil warning light, that I can't figure out how to remove) and the turn signals.  I'll add stuff in as stuff arrives.  As it was still raining, I installed a scooter brake lever - it's designed for a brake, rather than a clutch like I usually use, so hopefully it won't have such an overpowering piston size (it's not listed on the casing, I'll bleed it up overnight).

In the evening, we went out to a local bar and drank cider while eating little cheeseburgers.

March 30th

After work, Vic and Tilly watched Happy Feet 2 while I played Warcraft.  It seemed a little sillier than the original, but I don't think the target audience was really looking for plot holes.