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After dinner (which meant around 10 p.m., I guess), we started watching the movie Julie\/Julia, which was an enjoyable movie, if a bit unfocused.<\/p>\n
It was nice meeting some of De’s coworkers, and having a chance to spend some time with Lee and De.<\/p>\n
The weather more or less cooperated. The drive down was just fine. Driving back up was a bit more dicey, even (or especially) at 1:30 a.m.\u00a0 We made it okay, esp. after we stopped to\u00a0 refill the wiper reservoir.<\/p>\n
Crawled into bed after 2.\u00a0 Slept contented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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