Today was a rest & recovery day, so I managed to catch up on some blog updates – although I haven’t posted them yet. I must finish all my DC entries and get them posted – then I can finish my Vegas ones.
I eventually stirred about 11:00 and crept up to the shower. That woke me up a little, at least enough to go in search of coffee.
Having procured coffee I returned to the hostel and set myself up in the ballroom and spent the majority of the day there writing up my blog entries.
As it was getting near to dinner time (today was one of the free dinner nights in the hostel) I decided to pack up and return to my room.
When I got there Toby – another of my roommates from England – had got himself a new toy. It was a small laptop running Linux – therefore requiring no software licence – and he was “over the moon” with it. He had originally gone to purchase a second external hard drive as he had all his photographs from his travels stored on a little pocket drive. He did get an external drive, plus the laptop, and all for a very reasonable price. He asked me if I would mind copying his photographs from his pocket drive to the external drive using my laptop. “Not at all” I said and so we connected the drives to my laptop and set the copy going. When he saw it would take two hours he was most apologetic, but I just laughed it off saying they were “Microsoft hours” – and could therefore be anything from 30 to 90 minutes long – and I was going to have dinner anyway so it could sit there and “do its thing” while we ate. We did and it did and when we returned it only had ten minutes remaining.
When it was all finished he connected up the hard drive and was very pleased to be able to see everything on it, and also have a backup of his precious data. This is a sentiment I share as I have two external USB drives I back everything up to (alternately, of course) as I am paranoid about losing all my travel data & photographs.
As I was knackered from being up most of the night before I rewarded myself with a sauna and bed.
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