June 13th

Vic and Christina headed out to Tahoe in the van.  Tilly was inconsolable, as she wanted to go camping with them :o)

June 11th

I've discovered a problem with the LED light bulbs - they don't charge my solar powered watch :o)  I found that the watch was dead, and I couldn't revive it by leaving it in the sun.  I emailed Citizen support, and they told me how to do a total reset (turn the selector to CHR, then pull out the bezel for ~30 seconds) and that brought it back, but I'm going to have to remember to leave it in the sun from time to time :o)

Christina's in town, as Vic and she are going on an adventure, so we had a barbecue in the evening.  Geri, Larry, Jamie and Gwen came over and entertained Tilly.

June 8th

Vic went out to run some errands, so I tidied up a little in the garage while looking for a battery tender lead, which I installed on her bike.

We then tried bending the bottom of the garage door straighter, and succeeded a little.

I went and dropped off the recycling, then went to the airfield to tinker - the airspeed indicator stopped working in the last flight, as the hose from the pitot tube cracked due to age.  I replaced that.  I also tinkered with the wiring, as I now think the problems I'm having with the EIS freaking out are the live, not the ground (as it doesn't affect anything else).  Some of the switches weren't working the way I expected, so I took them all out to find that it looks like there's been a problem with electrons doing whatever the hell they want, rather than what I've told them to.  I've taped all that up to trap them in.  Finally, one of the cylinder head temperature probes seems to read high, so I swapped them over.  If it continues to read high, I'll break down and just buy new ones.

June 7th

We puttered around the house, watching Game of Thrones, then went and did some shopping.  In the afternoon, we went over to the airfield and took the plane up for an hour - it was a beautiful night, as it wasn't bumpy at all.

June 4th

After work I went to the EAA board meeting in Lincoln.  I was pretty pissed off when I got there, as there's some work being done to put in a new bridge on Nelson Road, and for some reason they've started hosing the road down, meaning me and the DRZ were filthy by the time I got to the pizza place.  Aynway, the meeting went ahead fine - I took a few actions, and made a few points.  On the way home, I stopped at the Catlett Road radio control club, and spoke to Mike there about coming out to our next meeting and showing off his models.

June 1st

A new month, new solar statistics.

Power we've paid for

Power generated

I had to estimate the values, as the inverter was replaced part way through the month, but the TED5000 is usually within a few KWh.




In the afternoon we watched the epic MotoGP race from Mugello.

In the late afternoon, we went out to the airfield, but the wind was straight across the runway, so we ended up going for frozen yoghurt instead.

May 31st

I went to pick up my new glasses, and took the DRZ.  The new front sprocket seems to make a bigger difference than I'd thought, as it's calmed the bike down a lot.  I might go back to the 15 tooth at some point, just for the lulz.  I did find, however, a weird noise from the rear brake just before stopping, and I think the rear wheel isn't quite in alignment, so I took all that apart and did it with calipers to be sure :o)