August 26th

It was the Airport Day at Lincoln, so I got there early hoping to watch the hot air balloons go up.  While I waited, I went and flew over Camp Far West Lake reservoir, before toddling back and joining the chaos arriving at Lincoln - there were several faster aircraft and a UH-60 which landed on the taxiway :o)

We were supposed to be down and sorted before 08:00, so I gave up waiting for the balloons and went and parked next to Shane and the powered parachutes for the day - the balloons that were supposed to go up at 06:30 to 07:00 went up at 07:30 to 08:00.

We spent the day talking to people interested in the gyros, a lot of whom recognised us from us flying over their houses :o)

I was pleased to see the Cal Fire aircraft there, as I'd suggested to Richard (the organiser) that he invite them :o)

I was on call, so after Shane and I stopped for lunch, I went home and got some work done :o(

August 19th

I got up early and headed to the airport to fly to Woodland to meet Chris.  I was running a little early, so I took the scenic route :o)

I was flying into a slight headwind on the way home, so I went in a much straighter line.

Back at Lincoln, I built up a front wheel for Shane from the parts Greg had sent and a new tyre / tube I had in my spares pile.

At home I carried on with trying to get my new to me PC running how I'd like it to.

One of the things (other than transferring data) that took some time was setting up an older version of Quicken (from before it was sold and went to a subscription model) - basically you have to install the old version, then copy over the quicken.ini file from the original installation.  If you don't do this, it'll try and get you to register, even though that's no longer possible.  If you start Quicken before the file copy, you'll have to totally remove everything to do with it using an uninstaller (just uninstalling it in Add/Remove won't work) and start over.  Fun times.

August 18th

Good news everybody!  The President's going to be in Tahoe for the next week...

Chris had kindly given me an old PC he had when he retired - it's 6 generations newer than my PC :o)  I kept putting off getting it set up, but finally reset Windows on it a while ago.  Well, tonight I installed my backup hard drive and put it all in place.  Now I just have (a lot of) setup to do.

August 16th

We did a cognition test with Tilly for the Dog Aging Project.  Unfortunately her attention spam is tiny, so as the length of time between dropping the treat and being allowed to go and get it went up, she was actually less accurate than blind chance :o(

August 13th

We took Tilly to the dog park in the morning.  We were there for about half an hour, and she got to walk around it once.  She decided she wanted to go home, then seemed to want me to throw her over the fence to the van rather than walk over to the gate.

I was pretty tired after a bad night's sleep, with Tilly getting me up multiple times, so I decided against flying.  I did go out to the airport because I had a sneaking suspicion that I'd left the gas cap off the plane.  I had.

August 12th

We got up early and celebrated Tilly's 16th birthday with treats.  So many treats.

After that, we headed to the airport and met Randy and PJ to fly to Columbia to meet Chris, Chris, Judi and Matt for brunch, but first got to change one of Randy's inner tubes, as he had a flat tyre.

After lunch we flew back - it was a little bumpy on the way there, so I headed out to the flatter land for most of the flight back.

August 9th

Tilly's still drinking from buckets, rather than her now raised bowl, so I guess bucket water just tastes better.