Last night, I awoke a little after midnight and was awake enough to notice that David did not return to the bedroom for some time. After a while, I decided I had better go check on him. I found him sitting on the bathroom floor with soaking wet pants and his shirt somewhat wet, as well. I don't how he got there or whether he fell, but I did manage to get him to use the edge of the bathtub to get him up. Somewhere along the way he injured his right wrist, and it's been causing him pain all day today. However, I don't think it's really anything serious; it'll just take some time to heal.
After all this, I had a LOT of trouble getting back to sleep, and so I didn't get up until after 7:00 and thus had no time at all for a walk today.
I taught only one student for 2 units today: 9:00-10:30.
After my class, I took our car over to the local Fiat garage for its 80,000-km service. They said it would be done by 3:00, so I decided to take the number 6 bus home. It only runs once an hour, though, so I had to wait about 45 minutes before it arrived. Then the ride itself took another 45 minutes because it goes on a tour of about half the city -- around and around in the hotel district, and then up and down and back and forth through multiple neighborhoods. At least it only cost me 4.7 shekels! I sat right up front, and the handsome driver at least made the trip a little more enjoyable! ;-)
We decided to order pizza to be delivered for lunch rather than take a taxi somewhere out to eat.
At just after 2:00 p.m., the garage called me to tell me the car was ready, so I immediately ordered a taxi and headed right over there. That cost 25 shekels, but it was much, much faster, of course!
At 5:00 p.m. we had an appointment with the lady, Beti Ani, who sells hearing aids. When she noticed David's motor difficulties, she said that he might be better served by a larger device on his chest with much easier volume adjustment. This was really nice of her because she does not actually SELL any of these and so she made no money at all for her time. She gave us 2 phone numbers to call about them, though, and she also said that they are MUCH cheaper. I hereby award her the "Mensch of the Day" award! כל הכבוד!
We then drove over to Ice Park and had frozen yogurt. We also stayed long enough to watch the 6:00 p.m. ice dance show. It was a new show that we hadn't seen, set to music from the musical "Chicago", and it featured the cute Hungarian guy who always does a backflip as part of his routine and the girl from London who always does such amazing acrobatics on the loop hanging high above the ice in addition to her skating.
Then we stopped to fill the car with gas (and to add the additive that they gave me at the garage to clean out the engine), to go to the bathroom, and to buy a couple of cold PepsiMaxes for a drive up the Arava and back.
In the evening, I watched a couple of videos from the Discrete Optimization class. I'm going to continue enjoying the videos even though I can't do the necessary programming to solve the class problems and really solidify the learning.
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