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Tuesday.  The new fridge has been in place and is able to be stocked with food today.  And now it is daylight, so I was able to get a picture of it now that it is in place.

We’ve really put the wine and beer fridges to use, too.  Both are totally full now that Paul fixed the beer fridge. The wine fridge has always been used, but the beer fridge has been unplugged for a year or more.  We just didn’t use it much.  But we are entertaining regularly and there is no room for beer or soda in the “food fridges.”

The new fridge has a pull out drawer that is perfect for Ciana to be able to have all of her snacks, like yoghurt, pudding, cheese sticks, etc. all right there separated out for her.  It is right at her height so that she can see and reach everything that she needs to.

With my diet, we are going through so many veggies and fruits that we need much more space.  My salad greens alone take up an entire shelf.

The Nicaragua office lost power today.  This is going to be an all too common problem there.  The area shares power with Managua which has notorious flaky power.

I did some laptop setup work today for a customer.  And some NextCloud installs.

My day was long and I ended up working long into the night.

Monday.  We started the day with the city having to turn off the water in the area because of some work being done nearby.  So we had an hour or two without water this morning.

We’ve been talking about getting a second refrigerator for a few days.  So this afternoon, Dominica and Paul went out to a used appliance dealer and found a great deal on a large (much larger than our current) stainless steel fridge and brought it home.  Just six hundred dollars for a really nice one!  It was too good to pass up.

The fridge was so heavy. Paul had to run to Home Depot and rent a hard core serious furniture dolly so that we could move it.  It was all that we could do to lift it off of the truck.  Once we got it off, we knew that we could not bring it into the house on our own, so Dominica got stuck sitting outside in a lawn chair watching the fridge while I worked and Paul drove to get the dolly.

We got it in and set up while it was still morning.  It looks pretty decent in the kitchen.  We want to completely gut the kitchen, anyway.  But it mostly matched, although it is so much bigger than our old one. But we were nowhere close to being able to store everything in the fridge that we need to.  With three adults, and cooking nearly every meal at home, and with Paul eating different food than the rest of us our food storage needs have just exploded.

Sunday.  It was nice out today and we sat outside for a bit.

I spent some time this afternoon trying to get video games working for the girls again after the “old” video game laptop died and I had to move them to the new one.  So much work for things that should be so simple.

This afternoon, Kim invited us over to her new apartment in Addison for everyone to go swimming.  The kids have been dying to get more swimming time in, and Kim has been trying to have us over for a couple of weeks.

We got everyone packed up mid-afternoon and drove down to Addison.  We hung out and got the tour of the new apartment for a while.  Liesl had a scary run in with a dog and we spent most of an hour getting her bandaged and calmed down.  She just got a small bite on her arm, but it was a close call and very scary.  It took her a long time to recover from the shock of it.

We swam for a few hours.  The pool is pretty nice and very handy, right next to Kim’s apartment.  The girls had a great time.  They love swimming so much.  They definitely do not get that from me.

It was late when we headed back home.  So on the way back we took a quick swing into Taco Bell and got dinner for everyone.

Showers for everyone once we were back home.  The pool water was very stinky, so no one was able to hold off on taking showers tonight.

Saturday.

I put in a lot of time today getting a new video game laptop build for the girls as they have been without Steam for weeks now.  What we are doing is taking the old Steam laptop whose Nvidia graphics card burned out and re-purposing that as Dominica’s work laptop where she doesn’t need the GPU.  And her old work laptop, which used to be my work laptop and is still, by far, the fastest computer in the house, is being made into the girls’ video game rig.  The two laptops are the same model and all but identical.  So it is not all that hard to do, in theory.

This evening, the girls and I made it a movie night again, as we had such a nice time yesterday.  First Liesl and I watched Elle Enchanted together.  Which is always fun, that’s a very cute movie and just up Liesl’s alley.  Luciana watched some, but was not all that interested.

Then, after that, we watched Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest which is way more Luciana’s style.  The girls loved having a movie night all together.

Friday.  After a few years, three I believe, today is Gene’s last full time day with NTG.  This morning Rodrigo and I reassigned all of Gene’s tickets that were still left lingering and he is now a free agent.  He starts his new job sometime next week, Tuesday, I think.  We are going to be extra busy in the coming weeks as we get used to not having Gene on the team.

So it was a busy morning doing Gene’s final sign off for departure.  Lots of last minute knowledge transfer stuff and trying to make sure that everything was clear so that he wouldn’t have to worry about anything after today.

This evening, after work, the girls wanted to hang out.  They talked me into ordering them Domino’s Pizza, of which I cannot have any, and watching some shows and stuff together. They are really loving this silly Netflix cooking show called Nailed It! which we have been watching together.  They have both seen all of the episodes already and are just rewatching it with me, now.