Morning at Westslate
Jun. 23rd, 2022 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustEvery holiday let has its peculiarities. Or, to be fair, every holiday let has its own way of interacting with my peculiarities. I could say many things about Westslate: you may be able to tell from the photos that the interior decor is not to my taste, and the exterior, which they don't show, is frankly ugly (in a land whose beauty does not come from its buildings). But it is comfortable, and conveniently close to Stromness.
However, I have not yet found anywhere I can sit and type at a plugged in notebook: hence the lack of posting. I wasted an hour or so yesterday testing the assertion that chargers are now one-size-fits-all, and can tell you that while the fittings allow my phone charger to be plugged in to the notebook, it doesn't actually deliver enough charge to run the device. Which is a pity, as it has a much longer cable. After a brief panic, I reverted to the notebook's own recharcher, with its minimal cable, charged it while I ate breakfast (another feature of holiday lets is, they remind me why I hate toasters and always want a cooker with an eye level grill!) and now I am using what charge it holds from that treatment until it runs out - or untilvalydiarosada has breakfasted, and we are ready to go out.
So instead of a rapid tour of all the things we have done in he past few days, have a single photo to represent the overall experience:
However, I have not yet found anywhere I can sit and type at a plugged in notebook: hence the lack of posting. I wasted an hour or so yesterday testing the assertion that chargers are now one-size-fits-all, and can tell you that while the fittings allow my phone charger to be plugged in to the notebook, it doesn't actually deliver enough charge to run the device. Which is a pity, as it has a much longer cable. After a brief panic, I reverted to the notebook's own recharcher, with its minimal cable, charged it while I ate breakfast (another feature of holiday lets is, they remind me why I hate toasters and always want a cooker with an eye level grill!) and now I am using what charge it holds from that treatment until it runs out - or until
valydiarosada has breakfasted, and we are ready to go out.So instead of a rapid tour of all the things we have done in he past few days, have a single photo to represent the overall experience:
