In the evening we watched Red, which was pretty good - I'm liking these old stars playing older people :o)

In the evening we really enjoyed Dinner for Schmucks.

I checked the hot tub to find that the reason it was at 98F is because it was set to 98F. I've increased that to 103F again, and we'll see how that does. I also need to get the clock sorted out, as it's totally wrong again.

Fred came over, and we got his laptop tethered to his iPhone via Bluetooth, and set up an ad-hoc WiFi network so he can share his network connection with Marsha. This means that he can have the interwebs when he's out camping.

At home the maintenance guy came and looked at the hot tub, and it's behaving itself. He's seen the problem happen, so he believes us, it's just not happening now. It was left to warm up.

Eventually we went to the airfield and got the new EGT probes fitted to the Flightstar, and the 12V accessory ports wired in. I pulled it out and fired the engine up to test that everything was working, and sure enough, it was :o)

We went home and spent the evening catching up on TV from last week.

After work I threw away $20 playing poker in about 10 minutes, so decided to call it a night and head home. Tilly was happier to see the van than she was to see me :o|

We trimmed the speedo cable plastic by a lot, and plugged it back in. Hopefully this will finally stop it skipping. We also tested everything on the cruise control, and it looks like it should be working. When running a few errands, the cruise control worked and the speedo didn't jump around any more. Yay!

We went to look at the Chevrolet Volt as I'm interested in the technology, but apparently they're selling them as fast as they can get them in, so I couldn't get in it or take a test drive. Oh well.
We went home and met Gwen, so she could pick up her PCs... I now have a lot more space in the office :o)

I was intrigued to hear the hot tub running at 9pm, and went out to investigate. It looks like the temperature sensor has failed again, as it's cooling down, but thinks it's at 112F :o( I turned it off, and we'll see if that resets it, or if it needs a new sensor.

We went over to the airfield in the van, so I could find out that the cruise control still doesn't work, and that the speedo's jumping again. Great. Still, we looked at the Flightstar only to find that the EGT leads were too short, and the CHTs weren't registering even if the polarity was reset. I had new CHTs, so we took the air scoop off the engine and put the new ones on, but that took a lot longer than we'd thought, as it's a pain to get to everything. While I was up there, I replaced the spark plugs. I'll have to order new EGTs.

I then made a start on my taxes - I've had nothing come in yet, so it was just importing last year's data and entering the rental stuff. I then went through and scanned all my older forms (1998 - 2002) and shredded the paperwork. I'll try and get the rest of the returns scanned, so every year I can just shred the oldest year. I'm trying not to hang on to quite so much crap :o)

We then went and ran some errands, and took the van so I could discover that the cruise control, she no work.
When we got home, I dinked around in Azeroth for a while, then decided to take the vacuum pump for cruise control out again - I need to get some more hose (having cut this set up), but I'll have the cruise control for around town rather than not at all - who knows, maybe eventually I'll find an electric stepper motor version.

I then went to the airfield, and looked at the EGT probes on the Flightstar - reversing the polarity on one made it work when I put a blowtorch to it, so that's the problem, methinks. As one of the EGT probes doesn't work, I pulled them both off, and I'll sort out the connectors and reinstall them later. I'm going to look at swapping the polarity for the CHT probes under the panel, and install new spark plugs (which is overdue) at the same time, so I can test those, too. While I was there, I got the 12V accessory sockets installed (I had to trim the fibreglass a little), but not wired up yet - need to get the master switch out to hook them up to it.

I went home, and we watched The Expendables, which was actually quite good :o)

I did some work on the van - the cruise control doesn't work above about 60mph, and I've decided that there isn't enough vacuum, so I've installed a vacuum pump on a separate circuit for just the cruise control. The stock Vanagon cruise control does this, but the vacuum pump comes from the same system on a SAAB.
While I was out in the cold, and already cold, I cut some branches off the trees in the front garden - they're getting all tangled up, so I decided to cut some of the lower branches that are the worst for this. Bloody hell, it was cold out there.

I then played some more Warcraft, and got my Death Kniggit to Deepholm, the next big adventuring area.

In the evening, we sat in the hot tub to warm us through to the bone - it felt like my feet were burning when I first got in, I was so cold :o)

We met Vince for dinner, but when the mariachi band started up we headed over to the local Starbucks so we could hear ourselves think.

We went and met a bunch from the SPCA for dinner, and a good time was had by all.

In the evening, I played a little World of Warcraft, and got my death kniggit up to level 82.

I went over to the airfield, and pulled the Flightstar out to sort out the EIS. The tach was overreading wildly, but I got that figured out. I can't get the CHT or EGT to work, so either the probes are the wroing type (K rather than J) or the polarity is reversed (I had black and red wires, and yellow/white and red wires - I connected the red wires together). It was too cold to screw with any more, so I'll come out some other time with tools and a blowtorch to play with this stuff and see what seems to be the problem.

We went to the airfield and got the instrument panel wired in the Flightstar, it all seems to work OK, I just need to get some time when it's not raining to set the limits, and start the engine to make sure everything works OK. I'm pretty sure that at least one probe will need to be replaced, as it wasn't working before I started all this work.

In the evening we went and met the SPCA volunteers for dinner.