Monday, 28 March 2016

I got up early this morning again. I think I'm pretty much totally adjusted to the new time. Perhaps living in a basement with no windows outside is quite helpful in this respect. I essentially control day and night in my home environment.

I taught only 3 units of Berlitz lessons today, probably because it's a holiday in most of Europe: 9:30-10:15 and 3:30-5:00. The afternoon lesson was with a student in Japan (no holiday there, I presume) whom I have taught before.

After my first lesson, I walked down to Maccabi. They had called me yesterday evening, while I was out walking, and told me that I could see a urologist at the local hospital instead of having to travel to Tel Aviv. Today, I got the telephone number to call and the form that obligates Maccabi to pay for it. After I got home, I tried to make the appointment but was informed that I can't do it until next week.

For lunch today, I had rice and lentils that I cooked together, and it was very successful. I also had a couple of tomato sandwiches.

During my second lesson, Pascal jumped up onto my desk. I grabbed him to throw him down before he messed up my papers, but his foot got caught on the headset cable. It didn't come unplugged from the computer, but, somehow, it seems to have damaged the audio in port so that my mic quit working. At first, I assumed that it had probably broken a wire in the headset itself, but the problem remained the same with ALL the other headsets I have (3 of them). I ended up finishing the lesson on my Mac, but it, too, was having some problem with the audio in port, so I had to use the built-in microphone. At least I managed to complete the lesson without any problems.

Afterwards, I did some more testing but could not get the mic to work no matter what I tried. So I packed the laptop in my backpack and headed for the computer store next to Il Pentolino. The guy there said the best option would be to get a USB adaptor. One plugs it into a USB port, and then plugs the headset into it, avoiding the built-in audio in port. He didn't have any in stock, though. So I walked up to the other shop, near Maccabi, and they had one. It cost me 60 shekels, which I'm going to try to get Pascal to pay for (ha, Arlan, good luck with that!). :-)

I walked a total of 8.93 kilometers.