{"id":433,"date":"2009-05-31T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:46","slug":"home-again-home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Home again, home again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>After a nice visit with Mom, I came back to Juarez on Monday afternoon. Pamela met me at the LR airport for a cup of coffee\u00a0before I\u00a0caught my flight. John picked me up at the airport in\u00a0El Paso and grilled an arracharra steak for me for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday I woke up to a dead battery in the Volvo, but John got it fixed for me after work. The car seems to eat batteries, but otherwise plugs along!<\/p>\n<p>We had another massage Tuesday night\u00a0&#8211; I\u2019m really getting spoiled!<\/p>\n<p>It was a super-busy week at work on the passport front, since everyone is trying to get theirs before the new WHTI law goes into effect June 1. Wednesday after work, we had a professional development event with our local FBI liaison. It was interesting to hear him talk about his experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night we went to another great party at Matt and Daisy\u2019s. It was a going-away party for them, and for Beth and Tom. We are going to miss all of them \u2013 we\u2019re approaching the time of year when a lot of people start transferring to their next post. It\u2019s exciting for them, but sad for us! The party was a lot of fun \u2013 lots of people, food and drink, as usual \u2013 and they hired a nice Mexican trio to play old Mexican songs for an hour. It was a lovely night outside. I hope the next family who moves into Matt and Daisy\u2019s house understands that they are obligated to continue the party tradition there!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night our bosses Roger and Rodney hosted a small get-together to talk about bidding for our third tour assignments. We won\u2019t do that until 2011, but it was great to hear their advice. It was also a good reason to eat and drink a lot!<\/p>\n<p>News flash \u2013 John has been riding bikes the last couple of weekends. He went for a check-up last week and his doctor invited him to go cycling with him and his friends the next morning. No bike? No problem \u2013 the doctor called his friend who owns a bike store and got John fixed up with a loaner (soon to be permanent). So, he\u2019s been riding with them both Saturday and Sunday mornings over in El Paso, along the road to Las Cruces. He\u2019s loving it!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a nice visit with Mom, I came back to Juarez on Monday afternoon. Pamela met me at the LR airport for a cup of coffee\u00a0before I\u00a0caught my flight. John picked me up at the airport in\u00a0El Paso and grilled an arracharra steak for me for dinner. Tuesday I woke up to a dead battery [&hellip;]<\/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\/433"}],"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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}