… I was still outside working. And that’s something of a record, especially for winter when I usually knock off at 18:00.<\/p>\n
The reason for this is that I’d finished my work on the front panel of the control board for the barn by 17:00 and as things can only be disconnected and disconnected when there’s no solar energy being received, I decided to attack it then and there.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t easy either, helped by my losing everything that I needed, not finding what I was looking for, dropping everything else on the floor, finding that the holes in some of the terminals are the wrong size, finding that some of the cables that I cut aren’t long enough. And that was just for a start. There was much more as well.<\/p>\n
Eventually, everything was installed and fitted, and most things seem to work. One or two things, however, aren’t doing what they should do, and I’ll have to have a closer look at them on Monday afternoon. But it’s been worth it all, and it’s really nice to have 12.8 volts in the barn late at night – this is an unusual experience.<\/p>\n
Mind you, i’ll probably wake up tomorrow and find that the barn has burnt down.<\/p>\n
Talking of waking up, I actually, much to my surprise, had a decent night’s sleep for a change especially as I had gone for an early night too. I slept right through until the alarm sounded at 07:30.<\/p>\n
And I’d been on my travels too during the night. I was in a town near Lindau in Bavaria, and I’d met up with one of the women whom I’d met in Greece last year. She had found some rooms for us in a hotel in the town nearby, at \u20ac48:00, and although the hotel wasn’t too bad, she took me to see some hotels that she had rejected – at \u20ac18:00 per night – and these looked so much better than the one that we had reserved. I felt extremely disappointed about that, that was for sure.<\/p>\n
While I was in my hotel room, I was trying to chat on the internet to a friend of mine but each time I switched on the chat program, it defaulted to one particular person, and that wasn’t the person with whom I wanted to chat. And I couldn’t remember how to switch back to the general chat so that I could see if the person with whom I wanted to speak was on line.<\/p>\n
From there, I was wondering around and met a young woman with a child aged about 6 or 7. This woman had black curly hair, I remember, and she was planning on wearing a black dress and shoes to a dinner to which she had been invited. I suggested white tights too, and the little girl was all so enthusiastic.<\/p>\n
All of this was so exciting that when the alarm went off, I turned it off and went straight back to sleep, and found myself exactly where I had been when the alarm had gone off. That’s not something that happens often. <\/p>\n
But I really do wish that my life during the day is exciting as what goes on in my head during the night when I’m on my travels.<\/p>\n
