Fixing the left over stuff, going to Arizona

Haven't blogged for a few days.
Today we are off to Arizona, Grand Canyon and Yosemite for a week. It was kinda of a last minute thing. Phil was supposed to go to Sedona with another family for his RCI timeshare holiday. However, the other family had some urgent family problems and had to cancel at the last minute. So Phil asked us if we were interested to go and Li Soon and I decided to go. Since Phil will be gone, I can't do much this coming week anyway. So here we go. We'll try to go to Yosemite on the way back from Arizona.
Phil and his family left this morning for the 15 hour trip from SF to Sedona, AZ. He's driving straight through. We will be leaving later this morning, after picking up the rental car at the airport. We have decided to take a more leisurely drive today and probably staying overnight near Bastow California after an 8 hour drive today. Depends on how far we get today. Looking forward to it.
Missed David Au in the Bay Area when he was here earlier this week. He's going to the Grand Canyon, so maybe we'll meet up near there.

I spent the last 2 days clearing up the last remaining items for the video studio, like tidying out the cables, labelling, etc. I must say I am pretty satisfied with the results now. Almost everything is working properly now. The crew will use it this weekend for recording the service, and then they'll report if there are any other issues. When we get back, I'll get on fixing the last 4 remaining items, which mainly pertain to sound in the sanctuary.
I tried to fix the waveform monitor on Thursday and traced it down, with my very limited knowledge of analog electronics and a borrowed oscilloscope, to a couple of components that may be bad. However, they might end up buying a new one, cos the are now running in component video instead of composite video. The old waveform monitor only ran composite video. I had a tough time trying to match the component video and the composite video signal levels, so I gave up and only did the component video setup by "Eyeball". Component video signals are better as they split the video into 3 cables instead of 1, which gives you better overall quality.
I'll try to get some pictures up soon.