I got up good and early this morning and felt more energetic. I walked to the gym, worked out a bit, and walked back, stopping to do stretches on the way. There was a slight breeze, which made a world of difference since the weather is still quite hot.
This morning, I found that my submission program for my class had successfully run over night! This morning, I submitted assignment 5, and it ran quickly. However, when I later tried to submit assignment 6, it caused my computer to run out of disk space (for virtual memory swapping, I think). So, I've cleared out some additional space on my desk, and I'll try it again tonight. Cross your fingers!
The first order of business for the day was a trip to the bank. Too much of my money was in a "closed" account, and I needed to order it transferred into my regular account, which had run out of money. I had to wait quite a while for my turn, but the banker was very helpful. Not only did she arrange for the transfer, she also helped me so that I'll be able to do it by phone in the future.
While I was waiting at the bank, there was a young woman, probably around 30, sitting near me. She received a call on her phone, and I heard that she was quite fluent in Hebrew. I did, however, detect a Russian accent (which is very nice in Hebrew, BTW), so I wasn't too surprised when, in her next call, she spoke rapid-fire Russian. What amazed me, though, was when she had another call a few minutes later and was speaking good French! Only in Israel!
After the bank, I headed over to Shufersal for the weekly grocery shopping and then headed home, of course, to put things into the refrigerator. In this hot weather, one does NOT want the milk to be out of refrigeration very long!
We ate lunch at Chooka, at Ice Park. David had Asian noodles with vegetables, and I had vegetarian sushi, both very yummy!
After we returned home, I gathered together our prescriptions and headed to the pharmacy for our monthly resupply. Early afternoon is by far the best time to go there, since hardly anyone else does, for some reason. Sure enough, I got through very quickly. After that, I made a fairly quick stop at the small discount store, where I got a couple a glass mugs and a couple of new belts for me, all at good prices.
In the late afternoon, we headed over to Ice Park again, this time for frozen yogurt. After that, we drove up the Arava to Samar and back. Before we came back into the house, we sat on the bench just outside our building, enjoying the warm evening (just after the sun had gotten behind the mountains) and petting Tehila, the outdoor cat who belongs to the little boy who lives in the other part of our building. She was absolutely soaking up the love!
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