'Twas quite a day

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We were up bright and early for a trip too Soriana so we could be back by 9am. We putzed around the house and grabbed a cab at 8:45. The store was deserted, one of the reasons for our going so early. When we got back, Diana and Donny showed up about 9:35, their having come over for some assistance with a problem they are having with their Duolingo accounts.

Donny bought into their family plan and they are not sure how to get Diana's account hooked up with his to avail herself of some extra functionality the family plan supposedly has. I could not figure out why, so using her login, we created a support ticket with the vendor for assistance. Should be interesting to see how much Duolingo really cares about their users ... anywhere from nowhere to everything possible as they spout on their website.

Donny, Diana, and Dominique went down to the pool and I followed but did not go in. In classic Michael Abbey tradition, after a while I stretched out on a beach lounge chair and grabbed 450 winks. Once they left, we went to town to find a cartridge for our printer.

That did not go very well as the first place we tried does not sell cartridges. The owner suggested we try Bodega Aurora and that went better than we anticipated. We grabbed a few other things there and cabbed it home. Dinner was a fine selection of meat, wonderful rice, and a salad, all courtesy of Michael Bloy and Dominique Abbey.

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