{"id":299,"date":"2008-12-21T16:54:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:06","slug":"batchin-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Batchin’ it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John flew to Dallas yesterday morning to visit with his college friend Stoker, so I’m batchin’ it this weekend. I amused myself by buying the Santa hat to put on our lovely statuette in the front yard – who says we don’t decorate for the holidays?<\/p>\n

Yesterday I got a lot of work done on some long distances courses, then met a girlfriend for dinner at Los Bichis. Today I did marathon Sam’s and Wal-Mart shopping in El Paso. It’s fairly warm and sunny out, so it was a nice day to be out and about.<\/p>\n

Friday night, we had Michael and Suzanne over for dinner, something we have been trying to schedule for a long time. They’re really nice, and it’s always good to get to visit outside of work.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday night, we hosted an impromptu dinner for our Consulate neighbors in an effort to polish off the beer left over from the posada<\/em> the night before. Success!<\/p>\n

Of course everyone is bringing goodies to work lately. Friday, a friend brought my favorite thing ever: cilantro mousse. It’s so yummy. I’m going to see if I can get the recipe but in the meantime, here’s a link<\/a> to one on the internet.<\/p>\n

The rest of the week was pretty uneventful. I finished reading “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan<\/a><\/em>,” which was really good, but made me really happy that I didn’t live in 19th century China with bound feet (ouch). We watched another episode of “The Wire<\/a>” one night…that’s about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John flew to Dallas yesterday morning to visit with his college friend Stoker, so I’m batchin’ it this weekend. I amused myself by buying the Santa hat to put on our lovely statuette in the front yard – who says we don’t decorate for the holidays? Yesterday I got a lot of work done on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}