I had a relatively good night’s sleep, but even
having had six hours sleeping still had me wide awake before 6am. I watched a
Christmas episode of Dad’s Army and last Saturday’s episode of Thunderbirds
then I had a message. A new geocache or two. In fact fifteen of the things all
on my way to work. Somewhat ironic that I’m now on a week’s leave. If only
they’d gone live yesterday…
One of them involved a puzzle to be solved.
Five minutes thinking gave me a solution which was several miles off the coast
of Ramsgate in the North Sea. I checked my sums – the error was in the setting
of the puzzle. I emailed the chap who’d set it. There is quite a difference
between co-ordinates of E000 and E001.
I then walked into town. I’d been due an
upgrade on my phone for some time and hadn’t been sure what to do. In years
gone by I hadn’t been at all impressed with EE. When it came to internet
signal, far from being “Everything
Everywhere” they were “Nothing
Anywhere”. But over the last few months their coverage has improved. Last
night I sought opinions and most people seemed to rate the Samsung S7 phone. So
I got one.
I came home, we had a cuppa then drove
down to Hastings to see my mum on her birthday. She’d gone out. What was that
all about - she never goes out.
We drove back to Ashford, had a quick McLunch
then gave Cheryl a lift home and walked the dogs round the park. "Furry
Shark TM" is getting better at the whole “walkies” thing; even if she does insist
on harassing passers-by.
With walk done "er indoors TM"
took Cheryl shopping. Their new car arrives on Friday; in the meantime they are
having issues with shifting the carcass of the old one, and will insist on
spending out on taxis. We are intently trying to head them off whenever we can.
I then sat down (with a small dog on either side) and had a look at my new phone in
earnest. Various accounts to set up, message alerts to customise. A lot of the
battle was deciding what I *didn’t*
want on the new phone. Over the years I’d downloaded all sorts of apps I never
use. Rather than generally copying the lot I tried to be somewhat discerning
about what I have got on the phone. Funnily enough getting my geo-app sorted
was the work of minutes whereas sorting my SmartWatch was rather painful.
As I fought with the device the doorbell rang.
It was our new next door neighbour. She’s apparently got a problem with rats.
We’ve had rats in the past; I thought the problem was solved. Mind you it has
been cold lately; perhaps the rats have come inside to where it is warm?
Before I knew what was going on it was
6pm… where did the afternoon go? I eventually got the new phone (mostly) exactly how the old one was.
I’ve now got a spare galaxy S4. I might just hang on to it as a spare GPS as I
doubt it has much in the way of a resale value.
Over a tea of bubble and squeak we
watched the “Paddington” film, and we’ve
got time to watch another film from the SkyPlus box. That thing is now sixty
per cent empty.
We might be in a position to get a SkyQ
box soon…
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