Out early again as I was awake at 04:30. Nothing at all to do with Obi and Isabella prancing around on the decking outside, shaking the place down. If I was a betting man, I’d put Isabella as the instigator of the early morning ballet session. They stopped prancing after a little while but I saw no value in lounging in my pit unnecessarily.
There was a posh BMW saloon parked in the beach car park as I walked past. Not that I could distinguish the make and model as it was still too dark to see details.
Obi was onto something as there was a load of yapping which could come only from him. Fortunately, I’d set my phaser to stun ready for an Obi event. He stopped the yapping very quickly as I didn’t want to have a barkathon at 05:05.
As we left the Promontory, Charlie had disappeared but turned up after some pressure was applied. He had a large chunk of bread wedged in his jaws so I guessed he’d soon disappear to find somewhere quiet to much his way through it. Predictably, he didn’t appear at Plakaki with the others and was only to be seen much later on when he emerged wet from the Promontory as we were walking back to the van.
I chucked the dogs into the van and went up to the office to try something with the camera only to discover there were no ports for me to plug in the device I wanted to configure. I came back, picked up the poo and drank some tea instead.
My ride took me to the top of the mountain and then down the east side and back through Paleochora without stopping at Petrakis.
I was waylaid by Michael from reception who asked if I could connect the till in the mini-market to the Internet as it needs to talk to the tax department concerning some VAT rebate or other. I put in a cable to the bar last summer for the same purpose but the connection was never actually used.
The till doesn’t have a WiFi card only the option to install a gprs adaptor which is unhelpful. Otherwise, it needs an ethernet cable to the nearest router or switch. This means clambering around on the building, drilling holes in walls and generally doing a lot of work for something which is used three months of the year. I remembered I had a cunning device which can masquerade as a number of different devices of which one is an Ethernet connection over WiFi. Just the job. The problem is the till is a dumb device so it’s not possible to set up the Cunning Device when it’s attached to the till. It needs configuring on a computer with a keyboard and monitor and then attaching to whichever device will be attached permenantly.
I bought two cunning devices of which one was flashed to transfer data from my weather station in the early days. For the price of the device, it worked extremely well until I was able to get the Meteobridge which was an accomplished unit capable of far greater functionality.
My first task was to discover which of the two devices was configurable and which had been flashed with different software to act as a weather station interface. Naturally, I found the flashed one first so there was a lot of mucking around until I rediscovered the other one lodged in another box.
The CD is now configured so it can go up to the mini-market in the morning when it’s quiet before the punters start moving around.
There are quite a few punters even though it’s only Friday evening. Some I heard were speaking English, not the Queen’s English as they were from the former colonies. Some punters have either chosen or have been put quite close to me. When the camping isn’t full and there’s plenty of space, I see no point in jamming customers right against the fence especially if they have small children and/or dogs. I’m past caring so will go about my business in the usual way. If the punters are disturbed, then so be it.
The days has been warm and sunny with a breeze which has recently sprung up. The forecast for the weekend is warmer weather with plenty of sun to please the customers.
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