{"id":1062,"date":"2014-02-10T22:25:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2014-02-10T22:30:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:30:25","slug":"not-the-most-productive-day-21014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Not the most productive day, 2\/10\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"

I felt like I wasted today.\u00a0 Judy left on time, and I slowly took care of my usual morning duties.\u00a0 I had three jobs on my radar today, groceries at Metro, swimming, and registering for our temporary residence permit after our return from Thailand (govt. requirement).<\/p>\n

I decided to walk to Metro first for the grocery shopping.\u00a0 It\u2019s cold, (-3\u00b0 C), but the wind isn\u2019t blowing, so it\u2019s not too bad.\u00a0 I made the mistake of going when I was hungry.\u00a0 The cardinal rule of grocery shopping is not to go when you\u2019re hungry, and I was starving.\u00a0 I came home with cookies, ice cream,, and several different types of nuts.\u00a0 I also found some sliced jellyfish, but decided I already had more than I could carry.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How about a little sliced jellyfish?<\/p><\/div>\n

When I got home, I unloaded the groceries, and began sampling all the bad stuff.\u00a0 Then I decided a nap would help give me the energy I needed for my swim.\u00a0 When I finally got up, I sat down at the computer to check on a few things, and before I knew it, I had run out of time to go to the pool.\u00a0 Darn!<\/span><\/p>\n

Judy was coming home early today, around 4:30, so we could go over to the police station to register for our temporary residence permit, after returning from Thailand.\u00a0 We taxied over, arriving about 4:45, drew a number, and began to wait.\u00a0 There was a crowd.\u00a0 I guess everyone who went out of town for the New Years Holiday needed to register, and there was only one clerk working.\u00a0 The office was supposed to close at 5:30, but it was 5:50 when she finally got to us.\u00a0 We were the only people left, and she had seen us standing near her window while she worked through the others in front of us.\u00a0 She muttered something, pointed at the door, and began to turn off her computer.\u00a0 I played dumb for a while, but she walked out of her office into the lobby, unplugged a couple of things, and pointed at the door again, telling us to leave in Chinese (I think).\u00a0 We didn\u2019t get registered.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to require another trip.\u00a0 How fun!\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking we might have been racially profiled.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time we came out, it was near dusk, and really cold.\u00a0 There were no taxis around.\u00a0 It took us 10 minutes to finally get one.\u00a0 By the time we got back to the apartment, we were in need of all the junk food I had purchased earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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