Steamers Beach
Friday, March 8: A few clouds at first, then sunny and warm apart from a cold wind
Today was the day for odds & ends. Found some washing powder, washed what I could and hung it up on the line to dry. In addition to my own seven washing pegs, I used another seven that I found on the clothesline. Think that a total of around twenty should suffice in future. Then washed the boots and put them up as well.
The library was relatively empty when I got down these this morning. Mail from Jim Flynn & Katie Brockie; replied to them & got mail out to the University of Otago asking for a pre-meet. Got most of the diagrams done that I need for the talk and the two quotes as conclusions (will have to translate the Brecht). Bought a chicken & bacon pie for lunch from Miles Better for $6, reheated here and doused it with tomato sauce to eat with a knife and fork. Was reasonable. About half of the laundry was dry by this time.
What to do on such a stunning afternoon? If yesterday’s forecast hadn’t been for rain this morning… Nonetheless I needed some internet access for organisational purposes and probably couldn’t have switched with Saturday. Anyhow, it should be fine tomorrow, in which case after collecting my tickets from DoC & booking the transport tomorrow morning I think I will row to the Monument and try recreating that photo.
The rest was: Data crunching. Wrote up the next five blog posts and these can be scheduled when I’m in Dunedin so that publication until the end of the first week in April is dealt with. Then it was back to the library to book some accommodation for the last days in Christchurch, check back on the emails, try to find a better solution to making a bootable card for CHDK, and trying to solve the regex problem with the Purple Picture Processor. Most of that done I decided to try the “real” Italian pizza place for dinner (Pizzeria da Toni, Main St) and was not disappointed by a pizza prosciutto e funghi for $23. Very large, very crispy & a genuine pizza, as opposed to the stuff at the places on the other side of the road (with the exception of Dolce Vita) where they serve some sort of pie under the same descriptor. Then it was the supermarket’s turn for the tramping food.
