I ended up almost triple booked for work this weekend because a major (in terms of who they are, not yearly order volume) client dropped a largish job into my queue with no warning. They are too important to say no to and will be paying me at the start of the New Year, when I’ll likely be traveling around, not having as much time to work, and grateful for the cash injection.

Despite that, I really want to go to the market tomorrow morning, which will be about two hours away round trip walking. So I worked my tail off today!

Thankfully, I had a really amazing night of sleep — 00:30 right straight to 8:30! That’s almost unheard of for me! The room is like a cocoon, so dark and quiet. I know I slept like crap all summer in Bulgaria, so it’s a blessing to have better sleep conditions here and that I’ll be able to leave refreshed.

I like to check my emails in bed and the cat joined me for a snuggle, so I didn’t get up till almost 9:30. I got cracking right after breakfast and worked steadily through my day. By 8:00PM, I still had, ideally, another couple of hours to do, but I was getting rather hangry. I decided to pause and have a beer and tapa at the place around the corner my host took me to on Monday.

8:30 on a Saturday night in Spain is apparently the perfect time to have a quiet drink at a bar, LOL. I ordered a beer and chose chorizo as my included tapa. I expected a bite or two of the sausage on a toothpick and to come back home and have some peanut butter toast. Imagine my surprise that my 2 euros/3CAD got me not only the beer, but a whole grilled chorizo sausage on a small bun and a small order of fries! I don’t think I’ve ever done that well even in Mexico! That was absolutely a full meal and really yummy! I read the local paper as I enjoyed my unexpected dinner, savouring a little luxury I missed in the Balkans. There, I could read the paper, but if I understood more than the odd word, I was on fire! 🙂

I think I will be going to that bar quite often! Now, back to work.!