The river is back to within its confines.
At this place, during the flooding, the
rushing water carved out a deep and
narrow channel right next to the em-
bankment. It's now a popular swimming
hole, as you can see.There was actually sunshine today... the first blue skies of 2009 here in Cagayan De Oro. It only lasted for about 30 minutes until clouds rolled in and covered it all up, but they were big poofy happy clouds instead of being filled with rain.
My tax refund was approved, accepted, and warmly embraced by the IRS today, right on schedule. Direct deposit is expected on January 30th (the IRS only pays on Fridays, remember), but February 6th is more likely since I've yet to have the "pay me please" portion of tax filing go as planned.
Susan is at the house. After I had sent her and Ednil home for want of more time alone with Epril — with a scheduled overnight once a week for Epril's cooking lessons — Susan has slowly wheedled it up to 4 days per week. (Don't think I haven't noticed, girl.) That's okay though. I still feel like Epril and I have enough time to ourselves, and Susan manages to leave the house or at least become invisible in the evenings. And the food is good.
Susan made chicken satay for lunch today... although different than what you find in Thailand: Chicken chunks in a thick peanut sauce over rice. For dinner, we splurged a bit: We bought a pizza from "Pizza & Buns" down in the Carmen area of Cagayan. A large pizza (about 18 inches) with everything on it was 310 pisos ($6.50). It wasn't particularly good... but when you consider that an equivalent pizza costs $19 at Yellow Cab Pizza, it tastes a little better. (We have to try Greenwich again. If I remember correctly, their pizza is a happy medium between price and taste.)
We've taken to watching the BBC Blu Ray "Galapagos" for a second time. Like I said before: Nature documentaries are really the only reason Blu Ray discs are at all necessary... very necessary.
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