Once at Russ', we dropped the van off and walked Tilly into the little town to have a drink while we waited for Russ and Deeps to show up. After a dinner at a sidewalk cafe table (where Tilly had her own chair so she could see everything) we went back to the house, where we slept in the van as the rental agreement forbids even visiting pets from being inside - that's a shame as I'd have liked to see Tilly storming around all the stairs - she's not used to being able to see through them.

In the evening, Gwen was hoping we'd take her daughter CJ up in the Flightstar, but we were all pretty wiped out, so we just stayed home.

It was raining for a change, so we spent the day mostly inside. I did manage to get out into the garage and do a little work on the YSR. The other flasher relay seems to work better than the one that was on there, so I'm assuming that'll actually flash when the engine's running. Vic helped me tape up the wiring loom, and then I put the tank and seat back on.

We also got a new ceiling fan to replace the one in Vic's art room, and fitted that before we lost interest and relegated it to just being a box in the corner.

In the evening, we barbecued, and Vince came over to play with Tilly.

I've had the wiring loom for plugging the old stereo into the Jeep in the kitchen for ages, so I sat and soldered that to the stereo - if nothing else it'll stop Vince playing with it all the time. I'd thought that the power and lighting lines were missing, but that's not the case - the new stereo uses CAN-BUS, a glorified network, to tell it what to do. I'll have to tap power from other stuff to get it to work, not a big deal.

In the early afternoon, I wore Tilly out, then took the van over to the airfield and took the Flightstar up for just over an hour. It was beautiful, and other than the jump plane and a couple of transients, I had the sky to myself.
There's an airshow on at Mather Field, and somebody'd dumped a CH-47 in the transient parking area at Lincoln. While I was flying, there was a CH-47 calling that he was transitting through Calaveras County airspace, so I thought the one at Lincoln had left. It was still there when I got back, so these things are apparently a lot more common than I'd thought :o)

Vic's still at the Gold Country Fair with the SPCA, so I wore Tilly out, then took the DRZ and met Vince for dinner. When I got home, I spent the rest of the evening playing ball.

Vic's going to look after some guinea pigs for a friend, so we were waiting in for them to be dropped off. They're not really dog people, so Tilly and I were playing in the garden when they called to say they were running late. We had hoped to go to the airfield, but that was out now :o(

Thanks to the sun, we were pretty much wiped out when we got home, so we watched Extraordinary Measures, which was pretty good, and Batman: Under the Red Hood, which was a cartoon. Starring Neil Patrick Harris.

I also finally got around to rehanging the garder gate - it's been dragging on the floor for ages, and now doesn't :o)

I agreed to a recommended video driver download for the HTPC, then lost the resolution I need for the TV (1366x768 at 60Hz). The closest I could get was 1366x806 at 57Hz, which looked like crap. Really? I've never seen a 16:10 screen at that resolution. I stayed in and fought with that while Vic went to the SPCA volunteer dinner.

I finally got it all sorted out, but it still has a tendency to switch again when waking up from sleep - the stuff I can find on the Google about this has people giving up and buying new TVs to fix this. My Panasonic is old enough to have been built in Japan, so it'll probably live forever :o)