28th August – Varkala beach, still.
There are a bazillion little bitey ants living in my laptop. Resisiting the urge to spray the damn thing with insect killer I've had to waste over an hour of valuable tout-baiting time ("sir, sir, visit my shop" "no thankyou I've just had one""maybe later?" "maybe next life/tomorrow/when I grow another head/when Australia regain the Ashes""I'll be waiting!") killing the little buggers as they crawl out of my USB port, the heat vents, even the headphone socket. I can see the last of them crawling around under the keyboard as I type. One could become obsessive, back at the room I ran all the programs the little laptop could bear to make the processor really hot so they'd have to evacuate. Madness comes in many forms. Tried to take a couple of pictures but didn't really work.
WHICH gives me a great excuse to show you a slideshow of all the super-cool Royal Enfield motorbikes I've seen here. If you share my (currently unfulfilled) passion for motorbikes, or have an interest in mid-last century engineering you should be enthralled, otherwise they're a heap of tin. These things were invented by the Brits before they left & here nobody can be bothered updating them (much). They look fantastic & sound awesome (no video of one yet, sorry) & can be bought new for about A$3000. The catch being they won't pass Australian design regs for a road vehicle….note the drum brakes & tiny tyres. The first few are of the wait for it…. diesel version. Weird but somehow gorgeous.
C would like to point out that she's firmly in the heap of tin camp, & hopes to keep the passion unfulfilled ;-)
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