Micah arrived from Belo Horizonte at 6:30 a.m., so we didn't get to catch up on our sleep from yesterday. We spent a couple of hours over breakfast talking about his trip to BH, the campaign, the various people whom we know there, his ideas to bring a campaign to SJC next year.

I went to the office after noon. Eliana had been to wipe down the office Tuesday, so things were fairly clean. At home, my eyes watered from the dust; I didn't feel it at the office, but then again I didn't go through the files or books, which usually provokes irritation.

My computer is still misbehaving. I'm going to have to have Otavio look at it.

On arriving I discovered someone had torn off the door knob at the street. Only because I had a pocket knife (given by J. C. Choate -- did I leave it in my brief case and it pass through customs?) with a hook was I able to open the handle. I called Milton and Gilda Costa, with whose music school I share the entrance from the street, and they didn't know about it. They came and saw that our neighbors (architects on the first floor beneath me) also had their door handle torn off. Since they had been in this morning, it could have happened even after they arrived. Milton and I switched the inside handle to the outside until we can replace it.

I stayed at the office until about 5 p.m., and got a ride home with the boys who'd gone to play basketball with their old gang.

Vicki had a good meal for us tonight: creamed potatoes, peas, carrot sticks and cucumbers, so I avoided meat today. From the scales here, I gained only 2 kg during our trip. Not bad considering. Now to lose it and more.

The boys went out tonight with Caio Casado and Leonardo Silva to the Gordao hamburger joint. They wanted to see a movie, but I'd told them to be home by 10:30 p.m. Wasn't one, so they pleaded to stay the night at Leonardo's, which I let with a stern warning for them to get some sleep.

With the boys gone, Leila wanted to watch "The Two Towers" from "The Lord of the Rings" DVD we brought back, so I let her do that. Vicki and I wound up watching it with her.