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It was colder than blue blazes today - never got above negative wind chill-, and I didn't have any outside obligations, so I've been hold up here doing laundry and reading Anne of Green Gables. I should have been studying Lithuanian, but I'll have until about 2:30 tomorrow. I also decided to start my exercise program with Lesley Sansone. It's one of those walking dvds. I did the first day mile walk today, and if I can figure out how to charge the battery on the portable dvd player, I'll do the second day activity tomorrow. Somehow the charger light never came on. I'm wondering if it only needed the adaptor plug instead of the voltage changer, but I'm afraid to try that. I read the manual, but charging it in a European country did not come up. I'll try again when I finish visiting. Of course, I could have brought the wrong charger cord. Wouldn't put it past me.
Del walked over to the University library to go through the books he sent over through the diplomatic pouches. They will all stay here after we leave, but about a dozen were books he needed for preparing his lectures. The State Department gave him a certain amount of money to buy materials to use and leave. Someone from the library went to Vilnius the other day and picked the boxes up at the Embassy. We eventually have to go and make a courtesy call at the Embassy, but I hope we can put it off until better weather. It's several hours by bus. We would like to go up on the week end and do the proticol stuff on Monday so we can spend some time in the city. It is supposedly quite wonderful.
I thought you might like to see the key to one of the locks on our door, and the locking mechanism that goes with it. I've never seen such a key, and the lock reminds me of a less serious version of the locks on the bank vaults at the bank where I worked for six months in Richmond. We use it when we go out, but to tell the truth, I can't stand to be in here when it is locked. Del locked it the first night we were here, and I nearly had a spell before I got it unlocked to let the neighbor in. I feel pretty sure that in an emergency I would not be able to get out if I had to operate that lock. You have to sort of wind the key into the lock and then know which way to turn it and then remember that the door opens out. Left handed person that I am, I don't think so. We live on the first level, but that is not ground level and means our windows are further from the cobbled street than I would want to jump. We just use the typical dead bolt when we're home.
I tried a zuchinni one more time, one more way expreient tonight. I cooked up a mixture of onion, garlic, zuchinni innards, crumbs from a leftover slice of rye toast, oregano, thyme, splash of tomato juice and lemon juice, cooled it and added feta cheese and stuffed it all into the zuchinni shells. I baked it at some degree or other until tender crisp. It tasted sort of Greek and was a nice change.
Time to get myself off to bed. I'm still loving my plug in toothbrush. Happy teeth and gums!
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