Jason brought the trailer over, and after I took the van out, we got it into the garage and the van back in. Great.

I picked Chloe up from Debbie's on my way past, and she seems to really like the thing. She settled down on the floor or the back seat, but when I got it home and in the garage, she explored all over, and seems to like the passenger seat :o)

Scott and Becky came over to see the thing, and were suitably impressed. I'll have to get to work and put some pictures up soon.

There was one dumbass who brought back a cat that he'd adopted, and decided he didn't want. No biggie, if you'll bring an animal back, we don't want you to have it either. He then did a big deal about getting a refund, despite signing the adoption contract that says, and we highlight to adopters, "no refunds". And as it was during our "get cats out in preparation for kitten season" push, we're talking the princely sum of $25. People sadden me sometimes.

As Debbie was visiting Chloe, we collected Dorothy and went out to dinner. It's getting more and more like the Bay Area here, as the wait was over an hour :o(

I figure I can use it for towing the Hawk to track days, and maybe even go to the MotoGP at Laguna Seca. I'm also hoping that Chloe's happier travelling in it, as there's enough space to put one of her beds :o)

The funniest thing was putting it on a credit card, so I'll get the 1% cash back :o)

I then received a letter from Fidelity Investments, to do with this. I'm paraphrasing, but basically it says "Due to our incompetence, enough information about you to allow people to steal your identity was on a laptop that was stolen. Oops. Sorry".

Well, at least I get a free credit report out of it :o(

In the evening, I went to the SPCA for a volunteer meeting, where Troy, one of the local Police's Animal Control officers entertained us with stories about his daily schedule. Dealing with people seems to be even worse than dealing with vicious dogs...

As I know the fuel level lines aren't that accurate (ie I've been thinking I have 4 gallons of fuel left, but can only get 4 gallons in the 9 gallon tank), I went home and fed Chloe, picked up a bunch of fuel cans and 5 gallons of fuel, and headed back. I drained the tank, to find I had a fair amount more than 3 gallons, and refilled it, marking 2, 3, and so on up to 9 gallons. Excellent :o)

Chloe had cracked one of her dew claws, but didn't want me to break the rest of it off for her, so I figured we'd go out and let her break it off herself. I looked up the Marco Dog Park on the web, and it seemed to be open. This is the only area in Roseville where you can let a dog off a lead, so I packed Chloe up so we could go and tire her out. It was locked :o( So, we went to the area where the new Bear Dog Park is going to be, near home, and she stayed on her lead while she dragged me around for a mile or so. I then took her home so she could drink 2 bowls of water (they have water available at the Marco park, so I didn't take any) and pass out for the afternoon :o) She didn't break the claw, but chewed it off by herself later.

While she was doing that, I did a little more work on the YSR rebuild - specifically hanging the frame from a tree in the garden and spraying it. I know, if it's too windy to fly, it should be too windy to throw paint, but this was just a thick coat of primer. I like the look of it in flat gray, but it's going to be black... probably not 100% gloss, but we'll see.

I went home and peered at the YSR parts for a while.

I talked to Jim at length about new TVs, as he apparently broke his when he dropped it.

I went for pizza with Scott and Becky and had the top pop off a bottle of ketchup and go everywhere. We then went home to prepare the Vespa for Scott to pick it up, but decided he might as well take it then, so he did. I now have lots of space in the garage, and I've started looking for something to fill it :o)

Now we just need to get the wireless stuff working.

Then Chloe and I sat down to watch the season finale of Battlestar Galactica . Now what am I supposed to watch?

With an evening to myself, and nothing better to do, I started working on the remaining YSR. I've decided to rebuild it as a street bike - of course, the first step is to take it apart :o)

I had a few interesting circuits - a bigassed DeHaviland twin sneaked in front of me to take off when I was on finals, so I ended up going around, because the wake turbulence was a bit exciting, and one guy in a Cessna didn't realise how slowly you have to taxi a plane that takes off at 15mph, so he was over the numbers as I pulled off the runway. No harm done - he came over later and we had a chat about the local area. He has 3 planes, so maybe I should start looking for a 2 seater :o)

I got home and took Chloe for her first walk this week. She hates the rain as much as I do.

At least it was quick - 0.39", and most of that in a few minutes. It caused a bunch of my gutters to overflow, so I went and unclogged them as soon as it stopped (or I'd forget until the next torrential downpour...).

So much for global warming.

I got to go and fix Jim's wireless network... he's been seeing my network, and I've been seeing his, so I've forced each device to connect to the correct network.

The family Serne showed up with their puppy Katie, who's doing very well :o)

I went back to the airfield, and fitted the tailwheel back to the plane. Now we just need the wind to drop below 15mph so I can fly the thing. Yes, I know I could just taxi around the hangars to test the tailwheel out, but I can't be bothered to drag those bigassed doors open and not fly.

I also made a start on rebuilding the train set, having been and bought some more track and suchlike.