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Monday, 7. January 2008, 01:15:02
Blog for the week ending Sunday, January 6, 2008
MONDAY, December 31, 2007
Today Bob went to Heidi's and helped Bianca make broccoli-shaped and non-broccoli-shaped gingerbread cookies. Heidi had invited me over, too, but my prescription meds made me sleepy... So I spent the day sleeping instead. So, that's it. No more drowsy medication for me. I stopped taking the pills today.
Heidi sent cookies and apple pie home for me to enjoy.
Walter came by with a plant delivery today.
You just can’t get enough plants.
Brian and Sônia came over after the soap opera, and watched the New Year’s Eve fireworks from our rooftop garden.
I made a fruit salad, and Sônia had made canjica, which is just like corn pudding with cinnamon, only more delicious.
TUESDAY, January 1, 2008
Happy New Year!
While the rest of the country has an alcohol hangover, today I’m sleeping off the effects of my prescription meds, which still haven’t completely left my system.
Yeah, I’m sleepy, but I’m on vacation, so it doesn’t matter if I spend the day sleeping. It seems like a waste of a sunny day, though.
I found the editing software that can make Anápolis look so blurry that you can pretend it's really Las Vegas.
WEDNESDAY, January 2, 2008
I’m still feeling the side effects of my meds, two days after I stopped taking them. I slept away the afternoon, and didn’t leave the house. I don't NEED to leave the house to enjoy beautiful flowers.
I think it rained today.
THURSDAY, January 3, 2008
After sleeping for three days, I’m back to my old self today. Bob and I went to lunch downtown, and then on to Gringolândia. Bob went out and bought another plant.
FRIDAY, January 4, 2008
I’m back on my regular schedule now.
All of my recent drowsiness lately got me to thinking... Maybe I need to be back on Provigil, a medication that helped me to overcome drowsiness in the past. I looked it up on the internet. It’s not available in Brazil, not even in its generic form, modafinil.
But, I ran across a study that says that good old caffeine is just as good as Modafinil. So come to find out all this time I was just suffering from a caffeine deficiency. I tried coffee therapy today... hot coffee...
iced coffee...
tea... and it really helped.
Just to be on the safe side, I picked up some guaraná capsules...
So if my diagnosis turns out to be “severe caffeine deficiency”, as I suspect, I’ve come to the right country, where coffee and guaraná are quite plentiful.
When in doubt, fall back on what you know... that was my philosophy as I duct-taped the leaky windows of our home. It’s a perennial problem that the condo contractor doesn’t want to deal with. Maybe they’ll want to deal with it now that I have duct tape draped across the north side of the condo.
After lunch Bob and I spent the afternoon at Gringolândia. A potential student, Sylvia stopped by. She loves Gringolândia.
Bob came home and planted his new plant.
I dragged five big huge mangos home... 20 centavos each. We also picked up low-fat soy snacks, which are like croutons only crunchier and cubier.
We bought a melon. It was sweet and green and orange inside.
Tami sent us presents from Ohio. They arrived today.
We got a whole buncha stuff... shirts, and cocoa and mugs and marshmallows and Christmassy things.
It was sunny today, but that isn’t exactly news cuz we’ve been having a lot of nice weather lately.
Our jabuticaba tree produced a few more fruit.
SATURDAY, January 5, 2008
Today Bob and I had lunch downtown.
There are guys all over town selling pequí.
After lunch today Bob and I visited Heidi, Marcelo, and Bianca and Lexy.
I think Lexy was overdue for a nap, but she was an endless source of amusement, nonetheless.
Their guava tree has a few fruity things on it.
Bob and I watched a couple of comedy videos in the evening.
SUNDAY, January 6, 2008
Today was a repeat of yesterday. After lunch we visited Heidi and family.
Bianca and Lexy had lots of fun today playing in their courtyard.
Photography Is Kind Of Like Art
This week I spent a lot of time taking photos of and from our upstairs garden. When I edit the photos with Special Effects they turn out looking kind of like water colors, only I don’t have to wear a smock or clean my brushes afterwards.
OUR CONTACT INFO...
Kevin Wood and Bob Baynes
kevinbob7@msn.com
Phone: From the US dial 0-11-55 + 62 +
Home: 3943-9318 Bob’s Cell: 8176-2429 Kevin’s Cell 8176-2422
Gringolândia: 3943-8855
Tami sent us a package...
YOU can, too!
Kevin Wood and Bob Baynes
R. Ferroviário Braúlio dos Reis, Qd 16, L3, Apto. 604-E
Jundiaí Industrial, 75115-050, Anápolis, GO,
Brazil
Check out....
http://my.opera.com/Gringolandia/archive/
Come visit us!
Driving Directions from Seattle:
Go to Cuba and take a right. Go southeast until you come to South America. Keep driving. Cross Amazon and continue south. Slow down at Brasília and look for signs to Anápolis. We’re the blue, gold, and sand-colored condo with the plants on top.
MONDAY, December 31, 2007
Today Bob went to Heidi's and helped Bianca make broccoli-shaped and non-broccoli-shaped gingerbread cookies. Heidi had invited me over, too, but my prescription meds made me sleepy... So I spent the day sleeping instead. So, that's it. No more drowsy medication for me. I stopped taking the pills today.
Heidi sent cookies and apple pie home for me to enjoy.
Walter came by with a plant delivery today.
You just can’t get enough plants.
Brian and Sônia came over after the soap opera, and watched the New Year’s Eve fireworks from our rooftop garden.
I made a fruit salad, and Sônia had made canjica, which is just like corn pudding with cinnamon, only more delicious.
TUESDAY, January 1, 2008
Happy New Year!
While the rest of the country has an alcohol hangover, today I’m sleeping off the effects of my prescription meds, which still haven’t completely left my system.
Yeah, I’m sleepy, but I’m on vacation, so it doesn’t matter if I spend the day sleeping. It seems like a waste of a sunny day, though.
I found the editing software that can make Anápolis look so blurry that you can pretend it's really Las Vegas.
WEDNESDAY, January 2, 2008
I’m still feeling the side effects of my meds, two days after I stopped taking them. I slept away the afternoon, and didn’t leave the house. I don't NEED to leave the house to enjoy beautiful flowers.
I think it rained today.
THURSDAY, January 3, 2008
After sleeping for three days, I’m back to my old self today. Bob and I went to lunch downtown, and then on to Gringolândia. Bob went out and bought another plant.
FRIDAY, January 4, 2008
I’m back on my regular schedule now.
All of my recent drowsiness lately got me to thinking... Maybe I need to be back on Provigil, a medication that helped me to overcome drowsiness in the past. I looked it up on the internet. It’s not available in Brazil, not even in its generic form, modafinil.
But, I ran across a study that says that good old caffeine is just as good as Modafinil. So come to find out all this time I was just suffering from a caffeine deficiency. I tried coffee therapy today... hot coffee...
iced coffee...
tea... and it really helped.
Just to be on the safe side, I picked up some guaraná capsules...
So if my diagnosis turns out to be “severe caffeine deficiency”, as I suspect, I’ve come to the right country, where coffee and guaraná are quite plentiful.
When in doubt, fall back on what you know... that was my philosophy as I duct-taped the leaky windows of our home. It’s a perennial problem that the condo contractor doesn’t want to deal with. Maybe they’ll want to deal with it now that I have duct tape draped across the north side of the condo.
After lunch Bob and I spent the afternoon at Gringolândia. A potential student, Sylvia stopped by. She loves Gringolândia.
Bob came home and planted his new plant.
I dragged five big huge mangos home... 20 centavos each. We also picked up low-fat soy snacks, which are like croutons only crunchier and cubier.
We bought a melon. It was sweet and green and orange inside.
Tami sent us presents from Ohio. They arrived today.
We got a whole buncha stuff... shirts, and cocoa and mugs and marshmallows and Christmassy things.
It was sunny today, but that isn’t exactly news cuz we’ve been having a lot of nice weather lately.
Our jabuticaba tree produced a few more fruit.
SATURDAY, January 5, 2008
Today Bob and I had lunch downtown.
There are guys all over town selling pequí.
After lunch today Bob and I visited Heidi, Marcelo, and Bianca and Lexy.
I think Lexy was overdue for a nap, but she was an endless source of amusement, nonetheless.
Their guava tree has a few fruity things on it.
Bob and I watched a couple of comedy videos in the evening.
SUNDAY, January 6, 2008
Today was a repeat of yesterday. After lunch we visited Heidi and family.
Bianca and Lexy had lots of fun today playing in their courtyard.
Photography Is Kind Of Like Art
This week I spent a lot of time taking photos of and from our upstairs garden. When I edit the photos with Special Effects they turn out looking kind of like water colors, only I don’t have to wear a smock or clean my brushes afterwards.
OUR CONTACT INFO...
Kevin Wood and Bob Baynes
kevinbob7@msn.com
Phone: From the US dial 0-11-55 + 62 +
Home: 3943-9318 Bob’s Cell: 8176-2429 Kevin’s Cell 8176-2422
Gringolândia: 3943-8855
Tami sent us a package...
YOU can, too!
Kevin Wood and Bob Baynes
R. Ferroviário Braúlio dos Reis, Qd 16, L3, Apto. 604-E
Jundiaí Industrial, 75115-050, Anápolis, GO,
Brazil
Check out....
http://my.opera.com/Gringolandia/archive/
Come visit us!
Driving Directions from Seattle:
Go to Cuba and take a right. Go southeast until you come to South America. Keep driving. Cross Amazon and continue south. Slow down at Brasília and look for signs to Anápolis. We’re the blue, gold, and sand-colored condo with the plants on top.
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