… I finished it yesterday. All 37,500 bytes of it. That’s 6,627 words and that makes it the 5th longest article that I’ve written for Radio Anglais in the four years that we’ve been going. And as I said yesterday, I’m now well in front of where I want to be and if I add in a recap about winter driving, what I’ve done this last couple of weeks should see us through to the end of the year and maybe even beyond.<\/p>\n
That took me through to the early afternoon, and for the rest of the day I undertook another task that took hours and it’s still not finished yet.<\/p>\n
I’m off on my travels in a couple of weeks time and as is my wont, I backed up the entire contents of the hard drive of the laptop, seeing as how I’m taking the laptop with me. Losing the laptop will not be the end of the world, but losing the data will be.<\/p>\n
I remember doing it last year and it didn’t take all that long, but this year it’s taken an age so far and it’s still far from finished. In fact, it took me hours to understand why that might be, and it’s really ohh so simple. Each year that I’ve been to North America I’ve either had a new laptop or else there have been a couple of voyages very close together. This year however, it’s been 12 months since I last went and I’ve been up to an enormous amount of stuff in that period. <\/p>\n
And then when you consider that last year, the laptop was brand new and there was hardly anything on it – in fact I remember leaving here without several of the important programs that I use regularly being loaded onto the machine and having to download one or two at the airport. I didn’t even have Paintshop Pro installed (and how that upset my routine). <\/p>\n
This year of course there’s tons more stuff and it all needs to be downloaded not once but twice (belt and braces) and then sorted.<\/p>\n
So that was the sum total of my day. I went out of the house twice – to fetch water for morning coffee and to take the stats at night, and I even forgot to cook my pizza for tea.<\/p>\n
And I’ll have to carry on tomorrow too because I can’t leave this job half-completed.<\/p>\n
