Today we went over to the market to make some purchases, since today was the last day for the vendors to be open. We bought some LED lights from Jirah.
We also talked with the SeeLevel and WiFi Ranger representatives. I showed our gray and black tank reading records to the SeeLevel person, who verified that our gauges are not reporting as accurately as they should. He suggested some things to look at, including the placement of the sensors on the tanks.
Ken talked with the WiFi Ranger folks again. He had talked with them before and followed their instructions to check whether or not the WiFi Ranger Boost was powered. It was not. One of the reps offered to go to our rig with Ken to check things out. He found that one of the connections had been made incorrectly and another one just hadn't been made at all. After those two cables were correctly connected, our boost now works like a charm. We can now see a long list of nearby WiFi signals that were invisible before--and that's with the batwing down!
We attended a seminar presented by Mark Nemeth entitled "The 12 Volt Side of Life." It was quite informative. We like Mark and enjoy his technical insights. We also went to a seminar on volunteering in federal and state and non-profit agencies. The couple who presented it had several years of experience as volunteers, mainly in Wildlife Management Areas, and had lots of good suggestions.
Later we stopped to talk with the Truck Systems Technologies reps about some problems we've had with our tire pressure monitors. They were very helpful and gave us some extra O rings and some advice.
They also sell a central vac system. It was time for the booths to close, and the woman was running a vac. I commented on the nice long hose she was using. We have a Eureka Yellow Jacket with a too short hose. When it's stretched to its limits to reach the front of the bedroom and the rear of the living room, it screams like a jet engine taking off. I mentioned this problem, and they said they had a 40' hose that would work with the Eureka vac we have. It was $49 plus tax and they had one right there. Now I am the new owner of a hose that actually reaches all the parts of our coach. Yay!
After lunch we went to the Row for the Row Party and Open House. It didn't look much different than before, but we looked around and got some Tootsie Rolls. One interesting table was the Geocaching BOF, which had a sampling of ingenious cache hiding devices, some of them really wicked hard to figure out. One was a coax cable connection that had been adapted to hold a cache log wrapped tightly around a toothpick and stuck into a cavity where the wire had been removed! Even though I knew the cable had to contain a cache, I was totally unable to find it until the guy sitting in the booth told me the secret.
This evening we went to the pavilion in the campground at 5:00 p.m. to attend the Boomer social hour. Only it turned out that the group at the pavilion was not the Boomers, but the Florida group. They graciously invited us to stay, but we decided to hunt for the Boomers. As we walked along with our chairs and snacks, a golf cart driver picked us up. When we said we were hunting for the Boomers, he said he thought he had an idea where to look. It turned out that he is a Boomer and the gathering was at the rig next door to his. Are we lucky or what?
We talked to several people--all friendly and fun. We chatted most with Dave and Sherrie De Armand. When we mentioned that we were square dancers, his eyes lighted up. He learned to dance from Dee Dee Dougherty many years ago. He remembers Randy as a young caller in Minnesota and his even younger sister at 14 just learning to call. They are thinking they might come down to the Valley for a couple of weeks this winter. They are also interested in birding in the kind of amateur way that we are, so they had heard of Bentsen Palm.
We stopped by the flu shot table this afternoon. The shots are being offered by Walgreens. They had run out of the Fluzone High Dose, which is the kind we want, but they'll have a few more doses tomorrow. We plan to be there at 8:00 a.m. when they open.
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