March 7

​My chance for a ‘Time Out’ has arisen quite unexpectedly. The App. I have been working on with my fellow programmers was acquired, out of the blue, by a larger start-up company. The buy-out does not make us multi-millionaires, let alone billionaires. But it comes with a ‘non-compete’ clause. We have to turn our skills in a different direction while the commercial use of our brain-child is further developed by the purchaser. The buy-out has given me enough to allow me to take a break, a pause, and a chance to refresh.

​I could have returned to the town near here where I was born and bred. But my family has left. The town itself is transformed by tourism. I looked for a place where a traditional way of life still lingers. I find it here.