We took it easy this morning. The inverter complained about low voltage when we turned it on. That was odd because the batteries had plenty of charge in them according to our Link 10 battery monitor. I tried to start our generator, but that practically overloaded the battery system. The voltage dropped to about 9VDC and the Link-10 reset itself. :( Fortunately, the solar-electric panels were starting to put out some electricity after the sun had risen over the mountains, so the inverter was no longer complaining. I had my normal breakfast. Then I processed two images for the blog. I went outside to look at the connections in the battery compartment, and everything looked OK. However, the two big positive lines to the coach felt like they were loose coming out of the connector, almost like some of the wire strands were broken from flexing. I tried to start the generator, and it almost shut everything down when I first tried turning it over, but after several short applications of the start button, I got it going and felt much better getting a lot of electricity put back into the batteries. J didn't like the fumes from the generator exhaust (she's extremely sensitive), so she went up into the bunk to read. I turned the generator off after only running it for about half an hour. I worked up a blog entry, and while looking up a link for the Garmin Oregon 450 GPS on Amazon.com, I read the reviews and they were overwhelmingly favorable — hmmm, I may have to reconsider that unit.

I had lunch around 12:15 then worked up ads to list some things on eBay. Then I processed some images for a stock submission.

We had dinner around 5:15 of steak fajitas and fresh guacamole.

After dinner, we tried to set up the Kyocera KR2 wireless router so we could share J's USB stick and external antenna connection to get a good Verizon Wireless Broadband Access signal. The router hasn't been behaving lately so we hadn't tried to share a connection for a while — I could connect to the router and the internet, but J couldn't connect to the router. After I reset it and then set it up again, J still couldn't connect to the router. Then she reset it, left it in it's default stage, and now she could stay connected to the router but I couldn't connect to it. I read the rest of the October Outdoor Photography instead of working on my computer to try to conserve electricity. We called my mother and talked for quite a while. Then I read through some older Outdoor Photography and Popular Photography magazines before going to bed early.