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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spent the morning working at home, with my cleaner for company. She\u2019s a neighbor, and she\u2019s originally from Paraguay. Her father turns 102 next month, and she\u2019s hoping to get down there to see him, although she\u2019s not hopeful given the Delta situation and quarantine rules. She tells me stories and shows me pictures of her homeland, which has always been on my list of places to visit.<\/p>\n
Contractors are taking a couple days off before they start making noise again on Wednesday cutting holes in the concrete floor for plumbing. Went to the office just in time for lunch and spent a quiet afternoon actually getting some work done after the computer fiasco on Friday. The good news is my new laptop was shipped today from California. It was a ghost town on the floor I was assigned to (right next to my old desk again), but at least the views were nice. I\u2019m expecting August to be relatively low-key, work-wise. Initially, we were told we\u2019d have to return to the office at least three days a week beginning September 1; but now we\u2019ve been given until mid-October\u2014and that\u2019s just a ball park. Doesn\u2019t really matter much to me since I enjoy being in the office and at home. I\u2019ll take what I get and do what I\u2019m told. (Hubby, if you\u2019re reading this, don\u2019t make these words come back to haunt me on the homefront.)<\/p>\n
A delightfully cool and low-humidity day. Went for an almost normal walk for the first time since Day Zero back in April. I even downloaded a new audiobook for the walk, something I haven\u2019t done for months and months. I\u2019ve been going through the whole series of Louise Penny\u2019s Inspector Gamache; a brilliant storyteller and master at developing characters. The ankle didn\u2019t hurt but my foot did from the awkwardness of the brace where it wraps around the bottom of my foot. I did about a mile and a half, which is a start. Quite keen to work up to five miles a day again and drop these convalescence pounds.<\/p>\n