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                                  Acclimating
                                        
We've been here for only a few days and we're still trying to acclimatize to
the area. It has nothing to do with the climate—the mid-70s at noon, low-to-
mid 60s at midnight are a given. No, what has us screwed up is the time! It
doesn't start to get dark until near 9:00 pm and that's messing us up, given
that Brevard [1] rolls up the sidewalks at 9:00 pm. It's like, “No! Wait!
It's just now getting dark! You can't be closing up shop! Wait!”

Another oddity to get used to—the local UPS (United Parcel Service) driver
constantly honks the horn at anything moving. Cars, people, white squirrels
dashing across the road—if it moves, the driver honks at it. Quite odd
indeed.

The third item is only affecting me, but man, is it annoying. I use my iPad
as a laptop while on vacation (it helps that I have a keyboard for it—one
that sucks but then again, any keyboard that isn't a full sized clicky IBM
keyboard sucks so take that observation for what it's worth). But I've been
noticing over the past few days it's having issues with browsing the web. Web
sites these days are so XXXXXXX bloated that anything short of a multicore
computer with a browser that's been updated in the last ten minutes stands to
crash more often that not. Just trying browse the website of a local
restaurant [2] stands a 50/50 chance of crashing Safari on the iPad.

Sigh.

[1] https://www.cityofbrevard.com/
[2] https://www.hawgwild-bbq.com/

Email author at sean@conman.org

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