{"id":6861,"date":"2022-11-27T13:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2022-11-27T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T18:17:29","slug":"looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6861","title":{"rendered":"Looking up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AE6869E6-D1CD-4016-8031-1F2B2273A99A.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AE6869E6-D1CD-4016-8031-1F2B2273A99A.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AE6869E6-D1CD-4016-8031-1F2B2273A99A-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Flavia\u2019s future got brighter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Things are looking up for Flavia! The vet came again Wednesday night and gave her a steroid and vitamins, along with some fluids. Almost immediately she started eating and hasn\u2019t stopped! I\u2019m sticking with canned chicken, as she seems to like it. We are thrilled and cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a lovely Thanksgiving with Lea and Jose at their house, along with Josey, another co-worker. The turkey was delicious and Lea made a great apple crumb pie for dessert. We really like them so much and are glad they are here. Lea and I also went to lunch on Monday (a local holiday) at a neat place called Mooie in Belgrano. I even drove and parked &#8211; getting my courage up to drive here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday night we met Phil, a friend of Mike and Wayne\u2019s, for dinner at Hierro. We didn\u2019t know him, but he was just delightful and we had a great time visiting with him over a steak and wine while he is in Buenos Aires for vacation. Nice guy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4F00D333-D87A-418D-9FA9-EA32E19B44F9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6863\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4F00D333-D87A-418D-9FA9-EA32E19B44F9.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4F00D333-D87A-418D-9FA9-EA32E19B44F9-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>With Phil, a new friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We stayed home this weekend and watched the Argentina &#8211; Mexico soccer match yesterday. Argentina redeemed themselves after a loss earlier in the week &#8211; the office was not a happy place to be on Tuesday after they lost their 7AM game. Across the street from the embassy, the city set up a huge Jumbotron TV and there were huge crowds of people there. I\u2019m sure they were a lot happier yesterday after their win! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend I finished \u201dJane Eyre\u201d &#8211;  I suppose I read it years ago (who knows), but it was fun to read. Today I finished \u201cBravo Company\u201d by Ben Kesling, the nephew of our Hot Springs friend PeeWee. It\u2019s gotten a lot of good press and it was good \u2014 and highlighted the need for better care for our veterans. TV-wise, Pamela got us hooked on \u201cDead to Me,\u201d a potty-mouthed but fun dark comedy (Christina Applegate reminds me of a mash-up of Jennifer Aniston and Tanya Harding), and we have continued to watch \u201cThe Law According to Barbara\u201d and the Swedish \u201cThe Hunters.\u201d We also started the clever \u201cWednesday\u201d last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s another photo from dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/53A09AD9-C1C3-43A1-B5DD-8EDE92E45553.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6864\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/53A09AD9-C1C3-43A1-B5DD-8EDE92E45553.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/53A09AD9-C1C3-43A1-B5DD-8EDE92E45553-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are looking up for Flavia! The vet came again Wednesday night and gave her a steroid and vitamins, along with some fluids. Almost immediately she started eating and hasn\u2019t stopped! I\u2019m sticking with canned chicken, as she seems to like it. We are thrilled and cautiously optimistic. We had a lovely Thanksgiving with Lea [&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\/6861"}],"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=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}