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And a sunny Sunday it is too, the weather is brilliant. It has been warm enough that I haven't needed to heat the apartment during the day. I shall go for an afternoon walk after posting this, to get my daily intake of Vitamin D and fresh air.

After—I nearly said "hanging up," as in telephone; I do think of this as a sort of conversation with pauses—posting the last entry, I decided to seize the day night and worked through the first four chapters of a recently purchased book on writing databases for the Interwebs, which is the logical next direction both for my database project and for myself as a developer. Getting a very simple bare-bones web database published was surprisingly easy, being Mac-originated software it does Just Work; but making it work properly, prettily, quickly and above all securely will be dismayingly difficult and tedious. It appears that I shall have to write (and document and debug) many new routines: there will be much less re-use of code than I had hoped.

My iPod's batteries have begun to wear down quite rapidly after some two or three years of near-daily use, they now only hold a two-hour charge. They are of course replaceable (seventy Euros and up to ten working days) which I will have done while I'm in Spain. In the meantime I have been walking without the iPod lately and realize that using it changes the way I experience myself: I think more and better when walking without music.