I was feeling like I was getting a cold and hoping it wouldn’t amount to much. I went to work on the 8 AM shuttle bus and arrived before anyone else (most don’t arrive until 8:45 AM). Had some discussion with Paul, Hank and Cisca about what I should be doing. They seemed to think I should be fine tuning the FORIS database, but I told them I felt it might be a mistake given the amount of time I would be there. I think Paul understood how complicated it would be and how dangerous it could be too. I talked with George and Max about this, and they agreed given the time I had, it would be dangerous to mess around with the database. I left work at 3:30 PM so I could pick up my laundry and the computer power supply. My clothes were cleaned and dried for a mere 50,000 Lire! ($38 at $7.60/Kilogram) I decided that from now on I would wash my clothes in the sink by hand! I went to pick up the power supply and to my surprise, they fixed the old one! The man said they replaced a part and took me upstairs to plug it in and show me that it worked. I was very happy but was holding my breath until I heard how much it would cost. He said they spent 1 hour, and it would cost 80,000 Lire ($61). I got him to throw in a cord with an Italian plug on it for free. All things considered; I think I got off fairly cheap.
It started raining cats and dogs and continued to rain until 8 PM. I went down to the hotel lobby for a beer and to watch Italian T.V. No one was watching T.V. so I turned it on and flipped through the channels. There were a lot of news programs, one French channel and one English Channel with M.T.V. I found one channel with an Italian version of Wheel of Fortune which I watched while drinking my beer. After a while, I went back to my room and wrote some postcards and updated my journal.
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