Another warm and heaterless night, but we woke up to a humid and oppressive day. The forecast high was 72F and we made it there.
After breakfast and a leisurely start to the day we headed out to do the weekly shopping. Lyn has a neat app on her smartphone that allows us to add items to the shopping list from our computers or my phone, and it will update the list on Lyn’s This app has a sub app that ensures the battery on Lyn’s phone dies half way through the shopping.
With the shopping done, we headed back to the trailer ahead of some nasty looking weather.After lunch we heard the distant rumble of thunder, followed a little while later by torrential rain.
While the rain was doing its thing, I opened up one of my Christmas presents from Lyn; a Raspberry Pi. No that is not a spelling mistake, nor is it edible. A Raspberry Pi is yet another techno gadget that I enjoy playing with. This time it is a small, credit card sized computer. The project was started in the UK as a charity to try and ensure every kid was able to afford a computer. It can be hooked up to a TV and just needs a mouse and a keyboard to get it running. This is not intended as a super computer, but more as a starting block to allow people to learn to programme a computer rather than just use it. Having said that, the computer is quite powerful, and the users imagination is probably the limiting factor in what it can do. The Raspberry Pi has built up such a following outside of the UK the waiting time to get hold of one of them exceeded six months. I know, more toys, but isn’t that what retirement is about?