An alarming development

It was raining this morning during breakfast. I had again sat with Rudi, the German I met a few days ago. Afterwards I went to the mezzanine and wandered through the gym area etc. I read the paper and then had a game of snooker on my own on the full sized table. I was reminded how badly I play the game.

When I was in Phuket previously, I wrote a little program to display the time on my laptop in digits big enough to be seen across the room. I have been using it here, since the clock in the room is an analogue and can’t be seen at night. Since I had set it up as black on yellow it also acted as a nightlight. Today I played with the program adding features to change the digit and background colours and then added an alarm feature which plays music when it goes off. I have successfully turned a $2500 computer into a $25 digital clock.

Later I went for a walk, gleaning more information on golf options and clarifying some other issues. The upshot of it all is that it’ll still cost$60 to $80 for a round and we have decided to give it a miss. I had walked over to the Sofitel to discuss this and managed to catch both Rick and Kevin with relative ease. I then joined the girls on the lawn for a bit of a read before heading back to the Hilton for a late swim. I suspect my holiday will outlast my books.

Tonight we had drinks around the pool at the Sofitel before eating at another of the numerous Thai restaurants, this one near the Hilton. A quarter of the price of last night’s dinner.