Chinese & Technology

We decided because of all the bad weather to drive down to the coast and have a meal. We drove to Mojacar, the weather gave us a passable sky eventually and we ended up in our favorite Chinese restaurant. We had a beer each with prawn crackers whilst we decided what to have whilst looking at the waves breaking on the beach. We had hot and sour soup, prawn cocktail, Beef chow mein, sizzling shrimps in hot sauce, a chicken dish, spare ribs in hot sauce and fried rice followed by vanilla ice cream with lychees. We had a bottle of house red with it and a liqueur after. The bill for two of us was an amazing 30 euros or about 20 pounds. Is that good value or what!

My son who lives in UK had previously asked me to set up Microsoft messenger so that we could communicate with each other whilst both online. I have done this a few times and was quite impressed with the program. Today I noticed that it had a webcam function, so I connected a cheap digital camera to the computer and tried it and it worked. My son could see me online but he didn't have a webcam. Later he went and bought one so tonight we had a silly half hour pulling tongues out to each other and other rude gestures. I also noticed it had a audio function, so I plugged in my microphone and lo and behold he could hear me perfectly although he said I sounded like Darth Vader. My son doesn't have a microphone either so tomorrow he is getting one and we are going to surprise the grandchildren after school with it. Isn't technology wonderful......