Dave and I wiped at Ahn'Qiraj, but we were _so_ close. Oh well.
We met Vince for lunch - he's still talking about getting an R1150GSA, so I've make encouraging noises. He's fixed so much on his old R1100GS that a complete systems failure can't be that far away :o)
We watched the excellent MotoGP race from Germany.
I've wired the rev counter in to the YSR's loom - I found that there's actually a lighting circuit that had been cut back. I've wired that in too. I still need to get the bodywork to fit back on again. Then patch it all up and look at maybe painting it :o)
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
July 7th
Dave and I wiped in Ahn'Qiraj a couple of times, so we stepped down to the 10 man raid and killed every living thing in there.
The van's going in for the air conditioning evaporator to be changed, so I tried to get the old one out. Nope, not happening. Oh well, I guess I get to pay for that to be done.
I did a little tinkering with the YSR - I was sure that the rev counter would work on 12v, rather than constantly draining 9v batteries. It did, so I've started wiring it into the loom.
In the evening, we watched "Wrath of the Titans", which Vic enjoyed, but I thought was a mash up of a lot of little bits of story - it didn't seem to flow very well to me.
The van's going in for the air conditioning evaporator to be changed, so I tried to get the old one out. Nope, not happening. Oh well, I guess I get to pay for that to be done.
I did a little tinkering with the YSR - I was sure that the rev counter would work on 12v, rather than constantly draining 9v batteries. It did, so I've started wiring it into the loom.
In the evening, we watched "Wrath of the Titans", which Vic enjoyed, but I thought was a mash up of a lot of little bits of story - it didn't seem to flow very well to me.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
July 6th
I got up at around 5am, got sorted and headed to San Francisco for work. It was a long day, but the trip wasn't too bad, other than me carrying 2 laptops (I was taking the old one back) and a docking station in my backpack. Dan's taking ~2 months off, so we took him to lunch and wished him luck.
Seeing as I left on time, and didn't hit too much traffic, we watched "World's Greatest Dad", one of Vince's films. It's really good.
Seeing as I left on time, and didn't hit too much traffic, we watched "World's Greatest Dad", one of Vince's films. It's really good.
July 5th
After work I checked the oil level in the DRZ - it's a dry sump, so a complicated process - you basically run the bike for 3 minutes, then turn it off for 3 minutes and then check the level. It's at the top mark, so I'll call that good.
We watched "Safe House", then I packed up all my junk to go to work tomorrow.
We watched "Safe House", then I packed up all my junk to go to work tomorrow.
July 4th
Today's a holiday in the US, where they celebrate the end of civilisation by going shopping.
Dave and I wiped out on the 40 man Ahn'Qiraj raid again, several times, and eventually went and killed every living thing in the 10 man raid just to achieve something.
In the evening we watched "Big Miracle", which is based on a real story that Vic vaguely remembers.
When it got dark and Tilly was already hiding under the bed from the kids sparklers, we went up on the roof to try and take pictures of the fireworks at the fairgrounds. Sadly there's a tree in the way, so we gave up after watching several explosions filtered by the leaves.
Dave and I wiped out on the 40 man Ahn'Qiraj raid again, several times, and eventually went and killed every living thing in the 10 man raid just to achieve something.
In the evening we watched "Big Miracle", which is based on a real story that Vic vaguely remembers.
When it got dark and Tilly was already hiding under the bed from the kids sparklers, we went up on the roof to try and take pictures of the fireworks at the fairgrounds. Sadly there's a tree in the way, so we gave up after watching several explosions filtered by the leaves.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
July 2nd
We started the day with the excitement of me seeing a yellow lab running around the road in front of the house. I was working, so Vic went and grabbed him (he was very happy to see her), setting Tilly off into frantic yowling as she could see all this unfolding through the front window. As he had no collar, she called animal control as they carry microchip scanners. She was waiting for John to show up when the Comcast guy arrived to hook us up to their internet service, which is cheaper and faster than Surewest. Vic called to check on John, and he was going to be a while as they were having a lot of calls. She loaded the dog into the van (he was quite scared of this) and took him to the SPCA to use their microchip scanner. He has a microchip, his name is Boomer and he lives in the close over the road from us - she took him over there, and it appears he's being house sat by people who were unaware that he was even missing. We got the Comcast stuff all finished up, and everything converted over to it.
I've been getting annoyed with my little weather station PC, as it hangs up from time to time. I've had it restarting every day, but occasionally the restart fails to reconnect to everything, so it stops sending data until either I realise it's not working, or until it restarts. I think a lot of that is that the software isn't really designed to work over the USB-serial connection, which is a bit of a hack.
Aaaanyway, I decided to try running a Linux release on there, as that natively supports the USB-serial connection. I started out with Ubuntu 12.04, the latest release. I got that installed, along with Wview, and it all works. Sort of. You have to install Apache and PHP to administer the thing, and by the time everything was said and done, I had basically no disc space left - the EEE 701 only has a 4Gb SSD. "Aha", I thought, "I'll just throw an SD card in there, and move /var and suchlike to it". "No you won't" said life, as the EEE doesn't support SDHC, and I can't find an SD card > 64Mb. Doy. So, I installed Xubuntu, which is a lot smaller (and seems to have installed a bunch of crap that I didn't ask for, so I might be able to get even more space back). It's all set up and working now, and I can ssh to it, rather than trying to use the 7" screen, and connect to it over the network to see what it's reading. Yay.
In the evening we watched "Ray", which Vince has lent us - it's a very good film, and doesn't seem to hide his dark side.
I've been getting annoyed with my little weather station PC, as it hangs up from time to time. I've had it restarting every day, but occasionally the restart fails to reconnect to everything, so it stops sending data until either I realise it's not working, or until it restarts. I think a lot of that is that the software isn't really designed to work over the USB-serial connection, which is a bit of a hack.
Aaaanyway, I decided to try running a Linux release on there, as that natively supports the USB-serial connection. I started out with Ubuntu 12.04, the latest release. I got that installed, along with Wview, and it all works. Sort of. You have to install Apache and PHP to administer the thing, and by the time everything was said and done, I had basically no disc space left - the EEE 701 only has a 4Gb SSD. "Aha", I thought, "I'll just throw an SD card in there, and move /var and suchlike to it". "No you won't" said life, as the EEE doesn't support SDHC, and I can't find an SD card > 64Mb. Doy. So, I installed Xubuntu, which is a lot smaller (and seems to have installed a bunch of crap that I didn't ask for, so I might be able to get even more space back). It's all set up and working now, and I can ssh to it, rather than trying to use the 7" screen, and connect to it over the network to see what it's reading. Yay.
In the evening we watched "Ray", which Vince has lent us - it's a very good film, and doesn't seem to hide his dark side.
Monday, July 2, 2012
July 1st
Wow, half the year's gone already.
Being the first, here's the solar / electricity graphs:
I plonked around the house, changing the oil on the DRZ (although I think I might have put too much in) and cutting the grass, then we went to the airfield and took the Flightstar out for an hour. Mark was there, and is moving to Oregon. We swapped a TinyTach for an easel for Vic :o)
Being the first, here's the solar / electricity graphs:
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| Electricity billed |
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| Electricity generated |
I plonked around the house, changing the oil on the DRZ (although I think I might have put too much in) and cutting the grass, then we went to the airfield and took the Flightstar out for an hour. Mark was there, and is moving to Oregon. We swapped a TinyTach for an easel for Vic :o)
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