Last day at the beach

 Last day at the beach

After three rather cool and blowy days during which I fought with some Assembler code that refuses to work, it is finally warm and sunny.  So back to a few favourite spots and a fun chore.  First of all the fun chore.  As I may have mentioned, I was given a pair of sneakers by a guy in Ingles supermarket.  They went well - maybe a bit narrower than I would have spent real money on but what the heck.  And then, a few days ago, the sole of the left one fell off.  Close examination showed that the Chinese peasant who assembled them had used three drops of glue.  So I contacted Merrill who offered me $30 off a new pair: tempting but no - I'd really quite like a pair of sneakers now.  So they made a better offer which was for me to take them to a local shoe repairer and they'd pay up to $25 of the cost.  Or, says I to myself, I could go to Walmart and buy a tube of suitable glue and call it all quits.  So that's what the rest of the afternoon has in store.

Meanwhile, I have ridden my bike up the road for half an hour - where did the days of six hours on the hills of Dorset go?  Most relaxing.  And, of course, another trip to the local flea market supremo.  This time I resisted the temptation to buy something from this guy.

It being a lovely day for a ride by the docks, much against by backside's protestations, off I went.  I have found my new pet.  They are enormous when you inflate them but someone had pulled the plug out of this guy.  They are also a trifle ungainly so how he got on that post is a mystery.



Right - time to fix the shoe: Gorilla glue, do your stuff.


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