It was a good but busy week at work. I finished up duty Wednesday morning and am able to return to my regular schedule. I had\u00a0a couple of disturbing calls on Sunday and spent some time talking to Americans who were having problems in Mexico. Hopefully, they will have good outcomes. The violence here continues – I think Juarez is on track to meet or exceed last year’s number of homicides, despite an increased military presence here. It’s depressing.<\/p>\n
On the upside, I had a few good social outings. John took me out for a nice dinner on Wednesday to celebrate the end of\u00a0duty week.\u00a0I went out with some of the girls from local staff on Thursday night for drinks after work. They are so funny, cute and smart – we laughed a lot. John and I spent Tuesday night down at Michael and Teresa’s house yakking – they’re always fun, and we got to play with their puppy. Then last night, we went to a birthday party for our neighbor Lara across the street that was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n
Wednesday was an admin day, so we had some meetings in the morning, then I went to do prison visits in the afternoon – always interesting!<\/p>\n
We watched a few movies this week – “O Jerusalem,” “Madagascar 2” and “About Schmidt”\u00a0– I had seen “About Schmidt” when it first came out, but we had been wanting to see it again – so funny.<\/p>\n
John’s off cycling this morning – he’s having such a good time with it. He had his personal best of 45 miles yesterday – bravo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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