So here we are, my daughter Alicia and I, ready to board the plane for St Lucia on Monday. KMH, our last mate and galley slave, not to mention scribe, has jumped ship to renew the coffers for a while, leaving us feeling without and potentially hungry. But there you are, life marches on and we are off to accompany Django on the next set of adventures.
Alicia is a freelance artist and designer, hence able to set herself free of the rat-race for a time and soak up the cruising life. She is looking for ideas and boutique manufacturers to build her creations, and is bringing along a set of water colors to depict the scenes. Hope we can get them into the blog for you all you dear readers.
The ship's computer is an aging laptop, well out of date and not wifi capable, so being the cheap SOB that I am, I have run out to buy the cheapest, smallest subnotebook available. How great is that? I have come up with a C$299 deal with integrated wifi and a camera memory card reader built in, from Acer. The screen is small but clear as a bell. Google Earth runs on it as does SketchUp for Alicia, It weighs 2.2 pounds. I am using all the online software I can, including the Google Documents Suite so all the stuff I need is to hand wherever we have a connection. I am impressed. All this and a very small power footprint as well.
So in keeping with the belt tightening times, the theme of this voyage is How Little Can We Spend? We will let you know.
Alicia is a freelance artist and designer, hence able to set herself free of the rat-race for a time and soak up the cruising life. She is looking for ideas and boutique manufacturers to build her creations, and is bringing along a set of water colors to depict the scenes. Hope we can get them into the blog for you all you dear readers.
The ship's computer is an aging laptop, well out of date and not wifi capable, so being the cheap SOB that I am, I have run out to buy the cheapest, smallest subnotebook available. How great is that? I have come up with a C$299 deal with integrated wifi and a camera memory card reader built in, from Acer. The screen is small but clear as a bell. Google Earth runs on it as does SketchUp for Alicia, It weighs 2.2 pounds. I am using all the online software I can, including the Google Documents Suite so all the stuff I need is to hand wherever we have a connection. I am impressed. All this and a very small power footprint as well.
So in keeping with the belt tightening times, the theme of this voyage is How Little Can We Spend? We will let you know.
Oh puhleeeeze. The theme of EVERY voyage is How Little Can We Spend!
ReplyDeleteAlready I sense a more technical bent to the tales that will unfold in this, compared to the Django1 blog.
It's -34C. Wish you were here.