I suppose both me
and my dog were somewhat tired after yesterday’s road trip. We both slept like
logs last night.
We got up to find
heavy rain. Yesterday had definitely been the better day to do our road trip.
Over a spot of
brekkie I checked my emails. I’d got the thumbs-down on one of the questions
about yesterday’s Earthcache. The task was to go to a certain point and (using my GPS) measure the altitude. It
turns out my phone was fifty metres out. After a little to-ing and fro-ing the
chap accepted my answers, but I’m left wondering just what else is adrift on my
phone.
I then took the bull
by the horns and started using my new lap-top in anger. I say “using”; setting up was closer to the
truth. To begin with, Microsoft Edge had to go. It seemed to be little more
than Internet Explorer, and that was always pants. I started off downloading
Google Chrome, but after a few minutes I decided I just couldn’t cope without a
drop-down bookmark menu thingy. So I went back to Firefox. It’s done me well over the years. I then
activated my KnowHow cloud account. I can store no end of stuff there. I get
the first year for free and then I have to pay for it. I wonder if I can get a
similar thing free elsewhere. Mind you I’m not sure I’ll ever use it anyway.
After an hour I’d
got to the stage where I had a browser that I liked and cloud storage that I
probably would never use, and so decided to have a little break.
I’d spoken with "Daddies
Little Angel TM" and we’d decided not to meet up today. The
rain was against a walk. But seeing how the rain had subsided I took "Furry
Face TM" round to the park. He gets fractious if he doesn’t
go out. (Bit like me really). As we
walked we saw that some trees by the river had fallen down overnight. Fudge was
fascinated by this; he would have spent all day sniffing at them if I’d let
him.
Fortunately, we
didn’t meet anyone else as we walked; that always makes for a quicker outing.
Although we’d left
home with no rain, the rain had returned as we walked. We were rather damp when
we got home.
Once home I put some
washing on, hoovered (with the Dyson)
and fed the fish. I had intended spending a bit of time in the garden today,
but it was a bit too damp for that. So I returned to the lap-top. It didn’t
take long to install Paint Shop Pro (the package
I use for farting about with photos) and so the lap-top was blog-capable if
nothing else.
I then downloaded
GSAK and got it registered. I also downloaded Urwigo. In theory the lap-top was
now geo-capable too. I shall have to test it, but that can wait until later.
It was then time to
transfer the data I wanted from the old lap-top (and leave behind that which I didn’t want). I started off with
backing up three years’ worth of photos to the old hard drive I have upstairs (perhaps I might stick that lot onto cloud
storage?). Over seven thousand photos took a while to shift.
I then had a rummage
on the old lap-top. I discovered loads of stuff, and after a *lot* of farting about I decided to leave
the vast majority of the stuff where it was. I’ve copied over that which I use
on a regular basis. The rest of it can stay where it is until I need it rather
than wasting time and disk space copying it never to use it again.
I was surprised at
just how quickly I got the new lap-top to a state where it could take over from
the old one.
Having a little time
on my hands I then had a rummage through my letter rack. I had a letter from my
Internet provider telling me they were pulling the plug on mankybadger dot com. They apparently did that three weeks ago (!) because as a company they don’t do
that sort of thing any more. Oh well; their loss. I suppose the Internet will
just have to rough it with mankybadger dot co dot uk. I started farting
about with that some time ago. I really should carry on doing something with
it.
And flushed with
success at how good yesterday’s Jasmer day went I planned another one. Starting
with a drive to Welwyn Garden City the next ports of call would be Tring and
Stoke Manderville, ending up in Harrow. If any of my geocaching readers fancy a
day of lots of travelling about for five smiley faces please drop me a line.
I had a bit of toast
for tea, then drove out to the cinema. Bearing in mind hardly anyone was
available for the traditional Tuesday gathering I’d posted on Facebook asking
if anyone fancied going to see the Star Trek film. Chris said he was up for it.
I’m glad he was. Have you tried to buy a cinema ticket recently? The last time
I went to the cinema was in 2014 to see the “Paddington” film and Cheryl had organized that. Prior to that I’d
been to see the previous Star Trek film (in
2013) and that was with free tickets given to the astro club. Buying
tickets is a right faff now. You have to choose where you want to sit. How
would I know where I want to sit? Fortunately, Chris organized all that. All I
had to do was get there and give him the dosh for my ticket.
I was surprised at
just how busy the cinema was. And as for the film…. It was *very* good. There was all sorts of nods
to the fans in there. Mind you if you are the sort of trekkie that has Star
Trek tattoos and you pay *very* close
attention there is one glaring inconsistency with the Star Trek mythos. I won’t
give any spoilers but I will say “warp
four”.
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