Today was Labo(u)r Day, when Americans celebrate the successes of the union movement by going shopping.
I started the day playing around with the 3D printer - I designed my first 3D thing, a bracket to hold up the ADS-B receiver in the plane, then spent ages watching it print. It's probably a ways thicker than it needs to be, but it should work.
The forecast for today was terrible, so we'd agreed to drive to lunch to meet up. Of course, it wasn't all that bad, but we'd all set out by that point. Still, I went and met Chris, Perry, Randy and Shane for lunch.
Dave and Sam came up to see Tilly and to drop off some Lift for me, then we went to lunch before they headed out to a murder mystery thing in Sacramento.
After that, Shane came over to see Tilly and discuss a couple of 3D printing things for the Team Wendy helmets that we use in the gyros.
Chris mailed to say Rock Monsterz was playing at Cameron Park, so we drove over there after work to watch their practice session. I'm still humming Kashmir.
Shane and Liza came by to visit Tilly. Oh, and to pick up a piece of plastic I printed for Shane.
We went to the airport early and flew to Cameron Park for their EAA burrito breakfast.
I performed what Vic said was the worst landing we've ever done as I was trying to hurry up and get out of the way of one of Don's students. Oh well... the plane can still be flown, so that makes it a great landing.
Judi asked me to fly one of the kids, so I did.
After all was said and done, we headed back to Lincoln.
I cleared out more work stuff, then cut a little video together from the Blackhawk landing at Lincoln yesterday:
After a while, I went back to the airport to meet Chris, where we took his RV-6A to Oroville to meet Paul.
Paul's an interesting character who owns a beautiful Wittman Tailwind and a Midget Mustang. Chris interviewed him for his YouTube channel and I wandered around shooting B roll with the GoPro and trying to stay out of the way. When we were done, he even dropped me back at Lincoln :o)
