Day 3128 Meeting of minds.

9th March 2026

I took my bravery pill and returned to Trowbridge, it was a grey day which matches the place perfectly.

The bus was on time, the driver was the same miserable git, maybe that was the job description, but he did have the opportunity to put his foot down passing stops with no one waiting.

I got to the coffee shop early, having forgotten what time we had to meet, fortunately Stephen Cooper was early, so it worked out well.

I was a little bit worried how our meeting would play out, I wouldn’t say we had a close working relationship, in fact we didn’t interact all that often, so in a sense it was my chance to find out who he was. I guess it was the same for him, maybe he was brave to agree for the meet, but any reservations disappeared, and we ended up having a great conversation. I left the coffee shop having got to know Stephen, we shared a lot of common philosophy, he was overshadowed by Steve Cox, but had proved himself, and if the Brazilian project had worked out he could have been a major player in International.

We agreed to meet next time I’m around, and I wished him good health, I then left the warmth of the shop and back to the land of the grey.

There seemed a long time for the next bus, so I started to walk back, there is nothing worse than waiting for twenty minutes in the cold and damp.

I was back in plenty of time to meet Derek, my ex-brother in law and electronics wizard who always helps me when I have a computer or hardware issue. The current problem was trying to move a software license from a website to a flash drive so that I could load it onto my system back in Holland.

If my Mac was new it would be simple for me to do, but web sites get upgraded and pretty soon they no longer load on the older machines.

However this task wasn’t as easy as it seems, the menus didn’t match the instructions I had been sent, and although we eventually found the licences they couldn’t be saved to the flashdrive. That was frustrating, and eventually we had to admit defeat, but Derek would not take defeat very easily, and would continue to work through the problem in his own time.

This technology annoys me, I have to buy the software, but unlike “the old days” when there  was a DVD, I would load it, and there it was ready to use. Nowadays it’s store on my account somewhere that I can’t physically touch, and, like today there is a uncrossable chasm trying to retrieve it.