an interesting week

It's been an interesting week. Interesting in a good way :-)

I catch up with a friend who I haven't seen for forty years.

He saw my name when I ran for parliament. Sent an email. It's taken us four years since then to meet up.

We chat. It's easy. I'm reminded why we were friends. Absolutely great fun :-)

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Two people have tried my app! It seems to work, mostly. Well enough that I put my name forward to use it for a future rogaine. Maybe. I suggest that the event planner has a chat with the two who tested the app. 

For those who are desperate to know: Go to Kings Park, start pwMapApp, select the pwMap Kings Park Memorials -- and find those memorials :-)

Less rogaine -- there is no proper map -- more a treasure hunt.

I'm just excited that the app has been tried by a disinterested party.

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Then Deb and I use the app for a training run.

We go to Carine OPen Space, there's an "orienteering anytime" map of the area. I've defined it to the app.

Deb navigates and claims treasures using the app. I follow and add GPS coordinates to each treasure. It all works rather nicely :-)

Except that the phone GPS is not great. I record a location, immediately test it -- and have apparently moved 80m :-( Still, that's why the app uses GPS *and* Q&A.

An enjoyable -- and successful -- outing.

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Friday is the start of a race around our lake. It's "last man standing", keep doing laps until everyone else drops out then, to win... do just one more lap. I can do one, possibly two laps. The winner does 57, That's about 340km on foot. At the end he is still going faster than I could manage, ever :-)

The runners pass the end of our street at quarter past the hour each hour, for 57 hours. Sometimes, we go down and cheer them on. It's fun, it's amazing :-) Almost inspiring... Next day, I do a lap of the lake. At half the speed of the winner... So... keep on training :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

Need to know: pwMapApp

 ... Kings Park Memorials

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A watch without hands tells no time, but so does a digital watch with no batteries. (Alfred E. Neuman)

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morning in the Park

why go anywhere else:-)

More trees, less path (see other post).

... and managed to enter some text while on the phone.

It's still a beautiful morning :-)

Nick Lethbridge
consulting Dexitroboper

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/ :-)

The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

kings park

It's 8am and I'm standing in Kings Park.

The weather is beautiful. The park is fresh and damp and green.

I'm thinking, Why would anyone go anywhere else :-)

So, I decide, I may as well see how easy it is to post to this blog -- from the phone... with a photo.

The answer, as it turns out is -- not easy at all.

Still... a few tries... and here it is.

Not a great photo.

The phone camera has no viewfinder, I can either see what I'm doing or stop everything and get out my reading glasses. So what I take is hit and miss.

There's a lot of path, isn't there ?

Take my word for it -- it's a beautiful morning :-)

I have to fix the post, add this text, from a "real" device, the PC at home.

Still, live and learn... I may get better. I'll have to... I plan to post a photo or two while we're away. Maybe.

I take the photo. Manage to post it (but with no text) and I have to move.

There's a tractor-driven lawn mower. He pulls up behind me... and honks his horn.

Really. I have to move.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

All well, quiet times

it's been a long time between posts... which means... nothing much happening :-)

Nothing bad, certainly.

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Deb and I have settled into a pattern of orienteering training. I can't navigate -- but I can follow. So, once or twice a week we follow an orienteering map. Deb follows the map, I follow Deb. Deb practices her navigation, we both enjoy the exercise. win - win... though our speed would not win an actual event :-)

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My app is live. pity no-one uses it.

A rogaine was cancelled, an opportunity to provide a quick substitute, use my app to manage a replacement event. for various reasons, some reasonable, nothing happened. rather disappointing.

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we leave for England in six or seven weeks. there are some preparations to be made. one thing is to be ready to post to this blog. actual holiday posts :-) I need to be sure that my relatively new Apple tablet will work. For example, can I type an email to become a blog post?

I was using a mail client which inserts hidden characters in the text. This can really mess up the post. So I'm trying a new mail client. Using it now, in fact. It may not work well, but I'll find out what goes wrong. So I can work round or avoid problems. Maybe :-)

Every so often the tablet locks them restarts. Cheap Apple junk (except it was not cheap :-(

That's a fault I have to live with.

This post is using the different mail client. So far so good. As long as it posts okay.

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I'm reading up on some of the towns we will be visiting, mostly reading Wikipedia. Only trouble is... it's fascinating...

I start reading... follow an interesting link... then another link... and get, as they say, lost in hyperspace. So much interesting stuff to read:-)

we're keeping busy, low level stuff. Such as a morning at Sculptures by the Sea. I notice that I enjoy it much more this year than I have for the last couple... due to a generally positive feeling, I suspect.

But I can still complain :-) 

I've had a couple of dizzy spells. It feels as though the solid ground is swaying like a boat at sea. it's old stuff, inner ear problem caused, usually, by staring too long at a screen... like now. I just watch my step, keep moving, it clears.

And... phew, I'm tired all the time. But that's okay, i have plenty of time too sleep. And I claim that I'm tired due to exercise.

So nothing exciting. Which is all good :-)

Nick Lethbridge

consulting Dexitroboper