July 30th

We watched "Lady in the Water".  It's odd.

July 29th

Jen came over so I could install an SSD in her laptop.  It took the 10 minutes I said it'd take, so we all went out for pizza to celebrate me not breaking anything else.

July 27th

I went to the airport early, thinking I could do some touch and goes before going to meet Chris and Randy for breakfast in Auburn.  I got in one, then a couple of guys joined the pattern.  I slowed down to let a twin get in front of me, and he then proceeded to do a bomber pattern, meaning I was getting further and further from the airport waiting for him to turn base.  I figured I'd leave the pattern and rejoin, and was on a 45 degree join for downwind when somebody announced they were changing the runway from 15 to 33.  Fine, I'll do an overhead join for 33 then.  Somebody else started bitterly complaining that we should be using 15, so I figured I'd just go and tootle around and head to Auburn via Folsom Lake rather than get caught up in all this nonsense.

After breakfast, we all headed back to Lincoln so we could help Chris sort out his replacement ADSB-in device, then we cleaned and re-oiled his air filter, as it was dry.  He headed out, and I headed home.

In the evening we watched "Hellboy".  It was OK, but it was no "Hellboy".

July 24th

I flew from Lincoln to Cameron Park to have a lesson with Don - in the way there a twin was crossing in front of me, but suddenly turned towards me, causing me to divert so as to not hit him.

Anyway, I flew with Don in the Sportstar from Cameron Park to Mather and did some circuits there to get my controlled airspace endorsement sorted out, then flew back to Lincoln.  Yay!

July 21st

The day started with us getting into the roof to look at the air conditioning motor - apparently it's leaking oil, and I wanted to get a part number from it so I can order a replacement.  Sadly the part number is under a metal strap, and it doesn't matter what we did, we couldn't get it.  We put everything back together and figure we'll wait until it cools down so I can get it out completely and take a look at it.

I then got up on the roof and washed the solar panels for the first time in ages.

July 20th

I started the day at the airport cooking breakfast for 20 or so people at the LRAA display day.

After that was all packed away, I took the plane out for a flight around, then headed home and watched "Shazam!".

July 17th

After work I took the car over to the airport and cooked for the EAA membership meeting.