I watched the latest Battlestar Galactica episode...

Spoiler Alert
This is mutiny, Mr Bligh. And Gaeta's starting to annoy me.

As Vic was going hang gliding in the morning, we got the Subaru packed up, and all had an early night.

The last of the Ebay junk merchandise finally got paid for, and shipped out. Thankfully. Now I just wait until the weekend so I can get the next load sorted out. Who knew I had so much junk, junk cluttering the place up?

At home, we took the patio sliding door out, and totally apart, so I could replace the wheels. I'd looked at this before, and couldn't believe that you'd have to take the frame apart to get to the wheels, but after searching the Internets, it seems that that is indeed how you take them out. Expecting broken shards of glass everywhere, I tried, and yes, that's how you get the wheels out. The bearing on the back wheel had totally collapsed, and it was noisy and hard work to open. The new units don't fit exactly the same, but they fit well enough that the door now slides a lot quieter and easier.

In the evening, we went and met Heather who used to be the volunteer co-ordinator at the SPCA for dinner. So I got out of cooking :o)

In the evening, I sat down to play World of Warcraft and got my warrior to level 80... triffic. Now I can work on my warlock, I think.

Vince and Larry called to suggest lunch, then changed their minds as to location twice while they found somewhere that was actually open on a Monday lunchtime. Weird. Still, we met them, and all went well. Most of the Ebay junk merchandise got shipped out, so I should really start buying stuff with my sudden Paypal funds.

In World of Warcraft I got my warrior to level 79 while answering last minute questions about stuff on Ebay, then boxed and prepared things as possible.

I boxed up some stuff that I have for sale on Ebay that's going to sell, and watched yesterday's Battlestar Galactica . Nothing groundbreaking there, I'm afraid :o(

I did play some World of Warcraft, and managed to find a pick up group to go through the Nexus, which was worth doing as it's my first Northrend instance. They'd all done it before, and we were probably a bit over level, as it was a sprint deathstorm, so I didn't get to look at anything in there... usually I like to take my time between battles :o)

In the evening, we picked up some new tennis balls for Tilly - she destroyed her last one yesterday. The pet ones from Petsmart cost 99c, and last about 20 minutes. The real tennis balls cost about $1.90 for 3, and her last one lasted about 10 weeks. Bargain.

Tilly's all better now - I gave her a new squid toy, that was all rope and rubber, and got to pick up the fragmentary remains after less than an hour. Bless.

Barack Obama's been president for over a day now, and I have yet to see my investments go up in value. That was a failure then, wasn't it?

Tilly's feet seem to be a lot better, in that she's running, jumping and playing pretty much as normal now.

Tilly's still getting over her blisters from her adventures at the Bear dog park, so she's been pretty subdued today. I don't expect that to last.

While Vic and Tilly laid down for a nap, I went to the airfield and pulled out the Rans for about 45 minutes, until I got too cold (I forgot my scarf). I chatted to some guy building a single seat Hytec Hurricane for a while, then headed home to watch Tilly pulling her blisters off her feet. Poor little thing.

Tilly was a little bouncy by this time, having spent about 2 hours being told to sit down and stop bothering us. She and I went out the front and she towed me up the street on the skateboard. It's weird, she's not awful when there are gardens on my left, but she doesn't do so well when the road's on my left. She runs on my left, and I guess the road's a lot more interesting, smells wise, than grass.

Vince called, he and Larry were going to lunch. We had early dinner plans, so we went over and had a drink and a shat with them. When we got home, we went over to Fred and Marsha's for Marsha's umptieth birthday dinner. Having got back from there, we picked up the Mook and headed over to Scott and Becky's to see them, plus Jason who was in town. Tilly spent a lot of the evening wet, having jumped in the pool several times to get floating toys. Idiot. We left quite early, being pretty tired from the longassed day.

We watched the first of the new Battlestar Galactica episodes.

Spoiler Alert
Ellen's the last Cylon? Starbuck's really dead? So who's that in her uniform? WTF is going on?

The new graphics card arrived for my desktop, and took my gaming score from 3.0 to 4.8. It's faster in World of Warcraft, so I'm generally running at more than 20fps. I managed to get my warrior to level 74.

We looked at the damage from last time Vic went hang gliding, only to spot the base tube is bent too. Oh well, we'll order a new one of those too :o(

I wasted the day playing World of Warcraft, mainly working on bringing my warlock to Northrend and trying to make sure that my warrior has done every quest possible in the Borean Tundra.

I did get the ladder out to clear the patio cover gutter that's overflowed a few times in the rain. Hopefully that's sorted. While it was out, I decided to look at the anemometer for the weather station - the backup batteries need replacing. So, there I was in the frigid 10mph wind, perched on the roof, trying to not crack the weather yellowed plastic. I couldn't get it apart easily, so I decided to fag out and check the manual - luckily I remembered to look at the Radio Shack version, as the Oregon Scientific version doesn't even mention the batteries in the external sensors. I used a knife to lever the back off, and replaced the 2 x AA batteries with a pair of Duracells... if I need to replace them again, I'll try and remember to get some camera lithium batteries to save me getting up there again for a while.

Vic called on the way home from McClure to say she'd had a 30 minute flight, and crashed on landing and broken a downtube. Still, she's OK, so it's just a matter of getting a new one.

I played some World of Warcraft, getting my warrior up to level 72. I should play some of the other toons, I think.

Vic and I have decided to try and eat out less, so on Mondays she's going to try and cook, and on Fridays I'm going to try and cook. I was thinking Hot Pockets, but apparently I'm supposed to buy ingredients and make something. So we went and bought ingredients. As Vince ate every meal I cooked last year, I called him to see if he wanted spaghetti. He also brought the movie Severance which was very funny :o)

I played some World of Warcraft, including stupid Warcraft tricks :o)

We also went for a ride on the motorcycles. Now I only have the DRZ, I got quite cold - with the Hawk I could tuck my knees against the air space for the rear cylinder and keep my legs warm there.
While we were out, we scoped out the Hughes dog park, it's quite small, but in the main park with trails etc that we can take Tilly on, as long as we leave her on her lead. I'm again thinking about a skateboard that she can tow me on at her speed - I just need to get her to tow me, rather than just try and sit in my lap like the last time I tried to have her tow me.

Russ has asked me to pimp his latest sponsored walk.
Rather than a shuffle around a park, it's a trek up Kilimanjaro (even though he apparently can't spell it) in Africa, in aid of The Alzheimer's Society. If you didn't know, our grandfather died from Alzheimer's, and the author Terry Pratchett has the early onset version of the disease. If you'd like to see many more Discworld books, and be able to remember where you've left your keys, donate.