November 11th

I started the day at the airport, cooking breakfasts.  We had hoped that the guys from the powered parachute flyin were coming over to join us, but they flew later because they'd had to wait for the for to burn off.

I took a load of tools with me, to work on the gearbox that's on the 503, and that came off really quickly.  There were a bunch of gyroplanes there, as everybody was waiting to see Larry fly his Tangogyro, but a check engine light grounded that, so I went up in the Flightstar for a bit.  It was pretty cold, so I was unimpressed when a guy in a Mooney asked us to extend to allow him to do a 6 mile instrument approach - I could have got in and landed in the time it took him to get there.

In the evening, I spent a little time getting Kodi working as the default media centre application working, so we'll see how that works out.

November 8th

I took the van to get the wheels balanced, and rotated while we're at it.

When they bring a vehicle in to the bay, they beep the horn to alert their cow-orkers that they're coming in - the guy who drove the van in liked the horn, so he beeped it over and over again.  It's such a friendly little sound, after all :o)

The balance was only off on one wheel, so I now have a new weight to paint, and I need to do the centre caps again now they've been off.

November 7th

The Proofpoint buyout press release went out, and we had a meeting with the Proofpoint manager and HR person.  They seem nice, but for the moment everything'll continue as it is now.

November 6th

We had an all-hands meeting at work to find out we're being bought out by Proofpoint.  Sadly it's not for billions of dollars, so I won't be retiring any time soon.

November 5th

The clocks went back, so I got up at an ungodly hour, and ended up changing all the clocks in the house.

After wasting time around the house, I went to the airfield to see the guy about the engine.  He seems interested, but we couldn't split the engine from the gearbox, so I'll sort that out and call him back.  Of course, by the time we'd finished cursing at it, it was too late to fly (it now gets dark at 17:00).

November 4th

It's started raining, so I'm thinking summer's done with.

I've been corresponding with somebody who's interested in buying one of the old plane engines I have.  I was supposed to meet him at the airport in the afternoon, so I headed over there early to get some safety wiring done on the plane before he showed up.  Well, he didn't show up, so I ended up going home.  He called to say he was having some problems with a pickup he was doing in Folsom, but that he hoped to get over later.  Later came, and he called again to say he was picking up an ultralight, and the truck he'd rented had thrown it's reverse gear, so he'd been spending a lot of time and effort getting that sorted out, so was going home.  Fine, we'll try again tomorrow, maybe.

In the evening, we watched "War for the Planet of the Apes", and it was pretty good.  I'm hoping they'll leave it there, as the trilogy tells the story of Caesar's life, but I'm pretty sure they won't.

November 1st

A new month, so here's the solar stats:

Power billed

Power generated

In the evening, I went to the EAA board meeting, where things and stuff were discussed.