November 7th

After changing the clocks in the house, we went to the airport and flew up to Auburn to meet Chris, Tim, Bill and William for brunch.

After brunch, we flew pretty much straight back, as a) it was cold and b) a mono headset causes issues on a stereo intercom.

When we got home, I replaced the rollers on the motorcycle garage door :o)

November 6th

I went to the airport early to catch the sunrise on the GoPro, then went to the EAA meeting.  The speaker, Paul Dye, is an ex-NASA administrator, and we'd been hoping he was going to fly in in his SubSonex, but the weather forecast made getting home again look doubtful.

Randy wanted to go out and fly, but it started raining, screwing up that plan.

We did a tiny amount of work on Shane's panel, basically we need to figure out the wiring for the new warning lights, and then I went home and changed the rollers on the big garage door. It wasn't horrifically difficult, so I'll get the motorcycles out at some point and do that door too.

I bashed up the timelapse from the morning's flight, and put it on YouTub:

November 5th

I went out to the airport early and helped Ken and Shane with Shane's new panel.  I got everything in place for the ADS-B doohickey, and we got the old panel out and stripped before going to lunch.

November 3rd

After doing some stuff around the house, I went to the airport and found I needed to change the inner tube in the wheel I'd just replaced the tyre on :o(  After changing that, I went for a little potter around over Folsom Lake.

November 2nd

"They" came and tested the ducting for the new AC / heater (it's part of the permit process), and said everything looks great.

I went through the video I shot on Saturday, that included Shane's first flight with us, as put the bits with him in them on a video.

As it wasn't raining, I could get up on the roof and replace the batteries in the weather station, so that's registering correctly now (the wind was OK before, not sure about the rain, but the temperature was way off).

November 1st

A new month, so here are the solar stats:

Power billed

Power generated

I've taken a week off work to do things and stuff, so obviously it rained today.  Not much, but enough to stop me doing any of the things I'd intended to do :o(

October 31st

We were just headed out to take Tilly to the park when the garage door didn't close properly.  Vic took Tilly in the van, and I thought I'd fixed the door, then I walked to the park and helped tire Tilly out.

When we got home, the door opened and closed OK, so I figured it was fine.  I was just heading out to the airport in the Bolt when it decided to get even worse, so it was all skewed and jammed.  We fought with it for a bit, then pulled the van out too and got it to the point where it would close properly and I figured I'd get a professional in - the last thing I want to do is screw it up completely.

We went and got a hot chocolate and briefly wandered around the farmer's market just as it was closing down, then went home.  I called a professional about the door, and they said they could be there in two hours.  Result!

Eli arrived, and we ended up tightening up the spring, but he thinks we really need to look at replacing the door(s), as the hinges and rollers are wearing out.  He did give me some tips about replacing stuff, because I think he realises that I'm the sort of dumbass who'll do it myself :o)