I also fitted the LED brake light. It keeps dropping off the roof, so I've tried sticky velcro. Oh, and soldered two of them together, so they'll be that bit brighter.

In the evening, Vic went to feed a friends' runny babbits, and I played a few hours of World of Warcraft, getting my warlock up to level 62. Still nowhere near getting my epic donkey though.

I had a friend of a member of the Hawk list come in to town to visit, with his family. Brett lost his right arm in a motorcycle accident 15 weeks ago. I was impressed, I think I was still in and out of hospital that soon after my accident, rather than flying across the country on vacation. Anyway, I showed them the Hawk, YSR and KLX, as he's interested in the conversions I've implemented to allow me to wobble around. He has a couple of Hawks, and while he didn't want to risk dropping any of my bikes, I can imagine that in a few weeks he'll be riding his own :o)

Tana went back to the SPCA to stay. She needs to be in the general dog area to get looked at properly, so hopefully she'll get adopted quickly.

We then took Tana to the SPCA.

In the afternoon, I watched the great, but disappointing MotoGP race from rainy France. It was cool to see Vermeulen win his first race, but it doesn't look like Valentino's going out of his way to make his job easy this year.

After the race, I put the van back together, and tidied it up. It sat outside with the stereo blaring while I looked at the YSR. I got that running, then put a little work into it to make it hopefully a bit rideable. It now has brakes, and footpegs. What it seems to be missing is a gearbox - I tried to ride it up and down the street, and it'll go into first, but not on into second. It's leaking oil a little, so I know it has gearbox oil. I guess I'll look into that next. Also, the indicators don't flash (even after changing the flasher relay), so I'll have to get my head around that. The spark plug cap seems to come off whenever it feels like it, so I'll get a new one of them too.

We took the van to get Tana, then filled up at $3.45 a gallon! It did, however, do around 20mpg to and from the Bay Area a few weeks ago, despite the awful stop and start traffic.

I then started work on the remote hatch release. I wired this all up, and found that I'd used a switched live wire, so I could only open the hatch when the engine's running (the Vanagon has no accessory position on the ignition switch). That's a lot less useful than you'd think. I fixed that, and put the other rear shelf back in. I then went to integrate the alarm, so the trunk release button on the remote would pop the hatch, but that's a ground switch, rather than a live switch. Great. I decided to leave it for the day.

One of the volunteers at the SPCA saw this about Duncan, one of the dogs we had who went to be a search and rescue dog.

In the evening, I managed to get the wires run through where I wanted them on the passenger side in the van. Excellent :o)

I couldn't get the driver's side wires run down the windscreen pillar, which was annoying, as I thought this would be the easy side. Still, little steps...

I managed to get in a little time playing World of Warcraft in the evening, and managed to get my warlock up to level 61. And a half. It's still a long way to level 62 :o(

I finished adding anti-freeze to the Hawk, and managed to finish gluing the mosquito net to the roof in the van. I got Vic to cut out the glue I'd got in my hair doing this :o|

I also started refitting the mosquito screen in the van, as it had come unglued. I decided to use Gorilla glue, as it sounds like it'll stay up there pretty damned well. The thing is, you have to hold it there for a couple of hours while it dries. I ended up using a plywood plank and the shower rod from the guest bathroom. I have to glue 3 sides, and I think I'll do that in 3 sections.

There were a couple of people interested in Tana, but she's still at the house. Maybe next week.

After work, I finally finished wiring in the reversing sensors on the van. Cool, now I can start wiring relays and running wire for the central locking in the sliding door, and the remote trunk release that might work :o)

I spent the rest of the day hiding from the 20mph wind watching TV and programming a Harmony remote to control the entertainment centre. It seems to work quite well, and I like it. I'm tempted to get one for the bedroom, too, and junk all the other remotes I have lying around :o)

In the evening, we went to Jason's birthday dinner. Kirk had brought a big cake with lots of blue icing on it. As I looked at it staining my finger blue, I thought "this isn't good". We all laughed at our blue mouths and teeth, then gave the leftover cake to the waitresses. Then they walked around with blue mouths :o)

In the evening, Jason dropped off the parts YSR for me to get together - looks like it's almost all there, it'll just take a bit of fiddling to get it all fixed up and out of my garage.