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Another pretty sunset<\/p><\/div>\n

John and I watched four movies this week. \u201cTim\u2019s Vermeer\u201d is a documentary about a quirky inventor who thinks he figured out how Vermeer painted his amazing pictures, produced by Penn & Teller – very interesting. We re-watched one of the sweetest movies ever, \u201cA Man Called Ove,\u201d which we highly recommend, and we re-watched \u201cGosford Park,\u201d also highly recommended with a brilliant cast. And we watched the new Sachs Baron Cohen movie, which is very raunchy but funny – and breathtaking to see him \u201cget\u201d Rudy Gulliani in a compromising position with an actress posing as a reporter. Paraphrasing someone in the news: if he can\u2019t recognize a fake reporter, how he could recognize a foreign operative?<\/p>\n

We went to a small going-away dinner at Anglers for a neighbor\/co-worker. I learned that the Atkins\/keto diet here is called \u201cBanting\u201d so I\u2019ll have to look that up. It\u2019s a West African thing and supposedly incorporates more local ingredients. Hm. Eating here is my biggest challenge due to lack of fruits and vegetables. I am happy to report that some basil cuttings are thriving in my Mexican pots on the balcony!<\/p>\n

We held a virtual awards ceremony this week. John and I were included on a couple of group awards for our work during COVID, which was nice. I was happy to see two of my former employees receive awards I had nominated them for.<\/p>\n

Also at work, we invited three people from the civil registry for a socially distanced meeting at the embassy to discuss the issuance of birth and death certificates here to try to get a better understand of the process.<\/p>\n

I ventured out yesterday to a West African chain called Orca. It was fun to browse around lots of kitchen and home decor things for a change. I didn\u2019t realize it was here until a friend mentioned it – just a little retail therapy. While I was out, I drove around trying to find a new co-worker who got lost on his first outing alone, bless his heart! It was a bit harrowing because he ended up in a not-so-nice part of town. John came to our rescue by plotting his location in WhatsApp and talking him through the turns to get home – whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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