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 wh...