I woke up a little late this morning, so I only walked to the big kikar, did my stretches, and walked back. Still, I DID get some good exercise and also enjoyed the wonderful morning air!
I taught 3 units today: 9:00-10:30 and 1:00-1:45.
We continued our tradition of lunch on Fridays at Il Pentolino. I had my old stand-by, the "Palermo" sauce, but David was adventurous and tried a new sauce, with olive oil, basil, and pine-nuts. It, too, was delicious.
Both of us have been feeling a bit better the last few days since I came up with an idea to help keep David from being so bored. Here's how it works. First, he chooses a topic he'd like to learn more about. Then, I go to the Wikipedia article on that topic and highlight all the text of the body of the article. Next, I choose a menu option (in the browser but actually a service provided by the Mac OS) that "reads" the text into a audio and puts it into iTunes. After I have done this for several articles, I sync his iPhone and transfer these audio files onto it. Then he can listen to them when he wants. He has been enjoying this quite a bit, and I feel more content seeing him happier. We'll certainly continue to do this, and to give thanks for the text-to-speech technology that makes it possible!
This evening, after we had made Shabbat, we took a nice walk around the neighborhood, stopping to sit on benches in the green strip a couple of times, and just generally enjoying the lovely cool evening!
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