Domingo especial

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All the fixings for a classic Sunday in Z. We started out with breakfast at Adelitas Café near La Ropa. The fare there did not disappoint as usual. There were hugs all around as Dominique and Lynn have known the owner Maria for centuries. We caught up on the going on with her offspring and the business. She seemed very please with how things are going, especially mentioning her son the doctor in Mexico City. We cabbed both ways as Dominique is still not 100% from the fall she had the week before last. Nothing serious, just the lingering pain as the lower back heals.

The balance of the day after Adelitas was a standard stay-at-home and veg escapade. We worked together preparing the bird for dinner, though she did the mountain of work. We are both so fond of the way we do things for one another no matter the nature of the task(s) at hand.

Lynn arrived for dinner about 5:30 and we chowed down about an hour later on chicken, cooked onions, a veggie compote based on cauliflower, and baked potato. The conversation was dynamic and we covered every possible topic that could be discussed.

Lynn had come down Saturday in a tizzy because the method he has been using for years to watch NFL and college ball while in Z was not working any more. We discussed a few options, then it dawned on me that we had a spare FireStick TV gadget. We proceeded to set it up at his abode, and found the login credentials for two playlists were invalid! Then it dawned on gringo estupidio that we had not yet connected to the network/internet. After I fixed that blunder, he was off to the races, starting to watch one of his favourite college games and then some NFL on Sunday. We could hear him purring two floors up as US football is a big part of his weekend life. Even more bonus is it frees up his wife to do things with Dominiaue and ithers which is a good fit for both.

I did some more work to get back to normalcy after my huge blunder with Dropbox last Thursday. The support person there was very helpful but, as is the case with many vendors, the instructions I was given initially sort of did not work out as specified. I did manage to do what was suggested with a few folders as a test, and all is close now to well.

The first thing I did before using their rewind folder engine was to make a backup of two of my most precious folders. After I did a rewind on one of them, the folder had something like 98 files in it. I looked in my backup and it had 252! Oh my, I copied the 252 files back into their proper location. Had I not made a copy, theoretically I could have lost 154 items. I did manage, on my own from cloud backups, to retrieve all 22,000+ of my photos that I scanned a few years ago.

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