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09:12: The rain has started. It has that quality that makes me think it’s going to rain all day. I’m set up for it, so I don’t mind. I’m glad I timed the distance to the Italian at the lakeside! I’ll monitor the situation here and then perhaps head there later in the day if there’s a break in the rain. I’ll need to head out at some point to get food, but I had a giant bowl of sultana porridge with honey, so I’d really only be eating for entertainment. I woke before 07:00 this morning and got up shortly after 07:15 to shower, make breakfast, wash up and wash my socks. The stuff (t-shirt, jocks) hanging on the internal clothes line is not yet dry enough to pack away. With the amount of sweating I do and the heat at the moment, they’re dry enough to wear. So I’m parked under the basha with my e-reader and enough water and tea-making facilities to last me the day. I expect I’ll stay dry; the ground is flat and there’s no wind.
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13:50: I braved the (lessening?) rain and made it to the Italian without getting appreciably wet. I spend a lovely lazy morning reading and dozing under the basha. I made tea around 11:30.
17:45: The rain stopped around 15:00 and the sun seems to be trying to peek out now.
19:16: At about half six I moved outside back onto the restaurant terrace and ordered spinach gnocchi for dinner. The mountains on the south side of the lake are less hazy than yesterday but still lack detail. I’ve arranged for David to call me at 20:10 my time. I’ve had a blissfully lazy day binge-reading Martin Campbell Kelly’s slightly flawed history of software, From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry. It’s missing detail on development methodologies, quality and ethical considerations such as piracy and free software. I’ve yet to find the definitive history of software. It does make clear that the corporate/scientific/academic worlds were entirely distinct from the hobbyist microcomputer culture that sprang up at the end of the 1970s.
19:48: €37.20 in food entertainment for the day: pizza, salad, two teas, gnocchi, ice-cream, Apfelschorle. Heading back to the campsite now.
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21:39: About to get into bed. I hit the road again tomorrow. I spoke to the David about where I’ll meet him and finished the Campbell-Kelly book.
