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RE: Some progress on my latest painting and being a creature of the coffee house
Your posts have just been sooooo good lately. I love that you are not only teasing us with your art, but with Canterbury! Thank you for it!
So. I bought a hot spot. I actually bought another phone and added a line to my plan but it's only use this summer was as a hot spot when I didn't have wifi and needed to up or down load. It worked pretty darn well, I must admit.
And to make things even better I had trouble with my old GPS unit (I really do mean old. 15 years which is like 47 doggy years or something). I had a brain flash and now my hotspot phone is also my GPS unit AND carries my music along on Connie. A huge winner!
Oh thank you @bigtom13 that's so kind. Here I've been worried about my posts, as I've been trying to post and get artwork done and also adjust to my new place etc.
That is a great idea about the hotspot. What is funny is I just bought a second hand sat nav (gps) the other day, a garmon, as I will probably occasionally be renting a car. And my friends and house mates here bought a car when we arrived and they brought their garmon from the USA with them. It is really amazing and so I bought a used version from ebay.
I actually found out the satnav is also an mp3 player, but not a hotspot of course.
So now that you are all familiar with Garmin you will know that my GPS unit is a 2010 (model, probably built in 2005). The first unit built for motorcycles. It still performs flawlessly though the screen is a little raggedy (It's been touched a few times in those years, almost always with gloves). I haven't been able to upgrade the maps since 2011 so things are starting to get out of date in places. I'm a big fan of Garmin.
I just love your 'coffee shop posts'.
I was lucky with my garmin as the seller on ebay wiped his trips and then updated the uk and eu maps for me for 2018 so that was really nice. It is supposed to be possible to get free upgrades now each year, but I think these will be fine for a couple years. I think next year on my trip over, I might then try for some road trips in Europe from UK, at least I'll be driving on the US side for most of that trip. I just have to remind myself when I get home to get back to the other side of the road after the UK :)
I actually really like using coffee shops as an office/studio part of the perk of living a digital life I suppose :)