After breakfast, I walked into town on several errands. On my walk down, I took some really nice photos of flowers, two of which are today's pics of the day:
The first stop was the iDigital store (in the Mul HaYam Mall). They're the sole official representative of Apple here in Israel. I was hoping they'd have either a Mac OS system disk or a Firewire cable (the latter should allow me to start the non-working computer via the other one's disk). Unfortunately, they had neither.
The second stop was the SuperPharm pharmacy, to get more of my toothpaste (which, naturally, is hard to find -- but they did have it there). Then I walked up to the optometrist's (stopping by the bank for a couple small cups of free water and a little time in the A/C) to try to check on what's happening with my driver's license. All I could get from them was a number to call, but when I called it, I couldn't figure out how to actually talk to someone. I'll try again tomorrow.
From there I intended to check out a couple of computer stores. The first one was (or rather used to be) across from Maccabi. Now, it's completely gone, and the building is gutted. The second one was down the street next to Il Pentolino. They were open but didn't have any Firewire cables. The young worker I talked to, though, was very nice and spoke quite fluent English (even though he was barely dry behind the ears, LOL). I learned that they DO work on Macs there, so they might be able to help me if I bring the computer in. Today, though, they were in a bit of chaos because their roof (like nearly ALL roofs in Eilat, in fact) had leaked during the storm. If I don't find another solution, I'll take the computer in to them next Sunday.
The guy also told me about a couple of other computer stores, both down near SuperPharm, so I headed back down there to check them out. Neither of them had Firewire cables, either. While I was down there, though, I went into a cell phone accessory store because my iPhone has been having more and more problems with getting the recharging cable plugged in so that it recharges. Last night, I almost gave up. I thought maybe I needed a new cable, but it turns out that the problem was that the Lightning port was just gummed up with crud. The guy took a few minutes and cleaned it out. He charged me 30 shekels, but it was well worth it, since it's very important to be able to charge my phone, obviously. If I had just bought a new cable, it wouldn't have done any good at all, and it would have cost more than that, too.
The final stop was the pet store, to get a mouse for Goldfinger. By then, it was noon, so the shade was minimal. Besides, I felt pretty tired, so I waited (sitting in the shade) for a bus and took it back home.
Goldfinger was so excited that I couldn't even get the mouse into the terrarium before he grabbed it. He proceeded to eat him hanging from his cage by his tail down the side of my file cabinet. Here's a pic him after he had gotten most of the mouse inside him:
In the evening, before it got dark. I went out for a very short walk, mostly just in Canada Gardens. In fact, I sat on a bench there and rested, enjoying the perfect weather (I was wearing short pants, a tank top, and flip-flops) and the children and a dog playing in the park together.
When I came back home, I chatted for a while with my next door neighbor, Tony (in the other basement apartment) before just relaxing for the evening.
I walked a total of 13.1 kilometers today.
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