So Wednesday was mostly uneventful. I brought the peach drink I bought from the store to work and it was delicious. One of my favorite things here are the juices, the right brands taste like they just threw a fresh XYZ into the blender and there you go. I shared it with many, but mainly Luke and I drank most of it. After lunch, to get some sugar, we walked to the local grocery to get more juice and candy bars (i've tried 3 of the juices so far).
Some of the chocolate here, Milka, is delicious. I tried to get one with hazlenuts but ended up with a plain one, oh well. Then it was work, and I worked until I got kicked out by security so and walked home, passing through the square where the Dnepropetrovsk celebration was on the way. 
They had all sorts of street sweepers (trucks and people) cleaning up the 1000s of glass bottles from the multiple nights of drinking. Apparently, glass bottles are not allowed in public during holidays but you couldn't tell that from observation (cause of course, it's not enforced). I almost went to the McDonalds (it's just off camera to the left) but wasn't feeling like eating that much. I'll save it till I want one of the vanilla sundays with strawberries and nuts I remember from childhood. So for dinner, it was another canned fishies, bread, and soft cheese dinner (actually tasty) and bed.Thursday
Thursday was more liver for lunch. Most of us didn't eat it. The previous day's liver looked charred to the max. Todays was breaded and fried. Neither were doing it for me. I've always enjoyed the daily soup for lunch, nice and hot (normally it's warm, but they nuke it hot for me). A Ukr. custom I like. I think liver has been vetoed from the menu officially. All the lunches are bought and then brought back for everyone. 90% of the time it is a mayonnaise based salad, soup, bread, and a grain or pasta plate with a meat or fish on top. It's been liver 4 times and 2 of those I've eaten it all - gosh, I feel like I'm trying to justify leaving food. Guess there's something i don't really eat, beef liver? geese and ducks on the other hand... After lunch Luke and I made our daily trip for juice and a sweet. Alla wanted a rolled chocolate and sugar wafer (kinda like a profiterole?) so we had to stop at a store that was in the neighboring building. While waiting for the treats, a lady came in and got all excited and pointed to my hair and said "yaponya" or something. I figured it was ukrainian for Japanese and said "yaponski" as luke tried to figure out what she was saying (he's been studying Russian for a year). Then I think she said he should do his hair like mine cause she liked it, and then wanted to know my lineage. We didn't know Chinese or American Canadian Scottish/Irish so I was Japanese. She continued to be excited for the 8 minutes or so it took us to leave. It was really funny. Then we went to the other store and I got Pomegranate juice (with a bulk of grape juice) and a hazlenut milka bar. This time I got the bar I wanted but the corner was torn, and Luke was like "it's fine" and I said after food poisoning once, I don't want to risk rancid chocolate, so I showed the lady and she replaced it. Spicybo I said in thanks and went back to work. weee.
I went to a georgian restaurant for dinner while the latest build uploaded. Alla and Luke were with me and the waitress didn't even offer the menu to Luke or me - hilarious. I got a traditional georgian shashlik, seasoned and marinated pork grilled on a shishkabob and then placed on bread with onions. The meat was fantastic, and the onions were great too. I'd go back just for those tender morsels of pork. The appetizer was sort of like deep dish pizza without sauce, and the other entrees were a lightly seasoned chicken wings and a through and through garlic simmered chicken wings pan. Both the chicken dishes were done well, but I would've voted for more seasoning on the lightly dusted one. After dinner, we waited for 10min to take a taxi through the rain and drop me at the office and then Alla and Luke continued on their way home.
And here's me returned to the office and using my trusty blue ethernet cable from home to connect to the network in the old creaky building and finish the build:
Here's how I took a 2hr nap while watching the upload:
I scrounged up 4 irregularly shaped scraps of cloth into bedding and slept on the carpet, the raised door sill, and my handy gamefest bag as a pillow. My jacket was used to cover my chest and chin too. I woke up refreshed and ready to work some more. Go go power ranger..nap.
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