November 28th

I flew up to Auburn to meet Chris, Kim, Vic and Bill for brunch.

After lunch, I meandered about a bit because I was trying to get to 1300 hours to change the oil, and because there was some dipstick who kept seeming to fly at me, then I was concerned that I couldn't see him in the pattern, and that was because he was flying a right hand pattern, rather than a left hand pattern like everybody else.

I changed the oil and did a couple of other quick maintenance tasks, but I'll need to go back one evening to complete the service as there was some stuff I didn't want to do - changing the spark plugs while the engine is warm is a bad idea, for example.

November 27th

We went and met Bill, William and Jody at a glass blower's in Auburn on one of their open days, so we could watch the ladies casually playing with molten glass at over 2000F.

November 26th

The day after Thanksgiving is a holiday, because everybody would take it off anyway.  I ordered a new toothbrush in the Black Friday sales, then picked Randy up on the way to the airport, where we met Shane and flew to Oroville for lunch.

The plan was to go and see Feather Falls on the way home, but I started to not feel so great, so Randy and I headed back to Lincoln.  I'd thought we were about 20 minutes round trip from the falls, but Shane ended up about 6 minutes behind us.

November 25th

Today was Thanksgiving, where I pulled the short straw and watched the queue at work until the Australians arrived.

When I was off work, I went to the airport and peeled my squeaky brakes apart and cleaned as much as I could get to without replacing "O" rings, and put them all back together.  Shane was there, taking his sister-in-law for a ride, and when I was done I took Liza out while I tested my brakes to see if they were fixed.

While not fixed, they're a lot better, so they'll do until I can get enough parts to tear them completely to pieces yet again.

In the evening, we ate lasagna and watched "Fast and Furious 9", which is just so silly it's silly.

November 22nd

I spent a little time cobbling together and uploading a couple of videos...

A sample of the horizon levelling of the GoPro 10

Sunday's North Fork run in its entirety for Liza :o)

November 21st

I started the day going to get gas for the plane, and the pump was just dribbling gas out.  I wasn't particularly in a hurry, so I propped the nozzle in the gas can and sat down to wait.  The attendant came over and asked that we all stop trying to pump gas, as they'd overfilled the tanks and needed to clear the vapour lock.  Eventually that was all cleared, and I got to fill up and head to the airport.

We dinked around getting everything ready and so on, then I flew Lisa so Shane could fly his daughter, and Randy flew by himself up to Auburn for brunch.

On the way home we flew the North Fork of the American River canyon.  Well, Randy and I did - Shane flew above the rim and watched, as he's still a noob.

I got to test my new David Clark headset, and it works well enough that I managed to forget to switch it on for the flight back, and it was still fine.  This is the new passenger headset - I'm still thinking I'll look at getting myself a Lightspeed on Black Friday.

November 20th

I picked Randy up on the way to the airport for the EAA pancake breakfast.  Shane's new ASI was in the hangar, so I took that out of the box and tested it - it seemed to work, so we installed that into the panel and put everything back together, then went and had breakfast.

We'd aimed to meet Chris and PJ at the Colusa Harvest fly-in, but the cloud was at about 300' over Lincoln, so Randy got a ride home while we tinkered with the planes.

The cloud stayed low until about 11:30, at which point we sent Shane out to test his panel while Randy came back and we preflighted the planes.  I had a flat tyre.  Again.  Luckily I had a spare inner tube, so I fitted that, then we flew to Auburn to meet Chris and PJ.

After drinking soda and chatting for a while, Randy and I flew home.

Randy and Liza went for a longer flight, and it's nice to see that the ADS-B (that I installed and configured) is working :o)