Day I
A few days away
The town has changed a lot over the past few decades. Many new buildings, shops and restaurants. The beaches are the same though.
There are a few new houses in the hill where we live but it nevertheless remains the same. There are thousands of holidaymakers in town but no sign of any where we are.
Lovely view first thing in the morning
I’ll be there. Tickets have been purchased.
I have been contacted by an old pal from our army days.
He has sent me a few photos which bring back quite a few memories
He is looking for some more
I took the plunge, this morning I installed on my phone the IOS 17 Beta version for developers.
An unprecedented move for me but there are a couple of new features which are precisely what I need at the moment.
In particular the possibility to link Notes is important as I am still in the process of transferring files and documents according to my new filing logic
🚀Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of 87,400 light-years.
One light year is approximately 9.461 trillion kilometers. Therefore, to convert 87400 light years to kilometers, you would multiply 87400 by 9.461 trillion.
87400 light years * 9.461 trillion kilometers/light year = 8.26 quintillion kilometers
🪐Recent estimates tell us that there could be as many as two trillion galaxies in the observable Universe.
The continuing mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
For some unknown reason I have stopped receiving emails in my primary email account since 48 hours and I know for sure that some were sent to me.
I suspect my eMail provider is having some issues but until now I cannot find out what. I also suspect that I might have a couple of conflicting anti-spam filter rules which are supposed to discard any suspect mail automatically. I’ll work on that angle for a while and review all my rules.
An important day today, after a longer than usual hibernation, I decided to check if my turtle would start.
And surprise surprise, it took only a couple of strokes of the key to make it roar.
I took it out for a spin around town, filled up and gave it a good rub back home. It was more than filthy but is now shining again. There are a couple of minor jobs to be done which will keep me busy for a little while.
I have finally made up my mind where to store which files between the native iNote app on my Apple phone, tablet, laptop and computers as well as Evernote which I use for research and projects and Dropbox which I use mainly as my “Cloud storage” not forgetting iCloud which is the link beween all the afore mentioned apps and accessible if needed via a third party computer.
Same area but a beach restaurant which has been taken over recently and needs to be tested.
So far so good, busiest time of the year in the south of France but the beaches are so big that it feels deserted.
Anyway, I had heard about the beach quite a while back.
