18 January

Today, I'd like to write about how I spent my rest day. Usually I wake up about at 12 pm on Sunday. My son already has awoken and watched cartoons on TV, my wife has cooked a breakfast, or rather brunch. I called a barber shop and enrolled for scheduled a haircut for 2 pm, because we were there last time last year. After my haircut, we had a snack at McDonald's cafe, took away one ham, some nuggets, juice, toys and came back home. Since the temperature outside was about +1, my wife and son stayed at the playground, but I went home to wash my head. I made a cup of sugarfree black coffee and switched on my PC. I checked my e-mail, looked at what was new on Lang-8 and other social networks. Near At about 11 pm I called to my job and asked about my route today. I'll explain. Since my work time is till 12 am,* at that time social public transport is not in service, and therefore our staff comes back home by taxi. Altogether I earn a little extra, which I spend on gasoline. By the way, in Russia, gasoline is very expensive. For instance one litrer [if you are clling it gasoline instead of petrol you should use American spelling.] of 95 octane costs about 50 eurocents. Some say that it's not expensive in contrast with comparison to other countries, but if you compare wages vs. costs, Russia comes out behind. Next what I did, I washed my iron horse before the frost (-20) that we are expecting during the last days of January as usual. I guess that's enough for on today. Thanks.

* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has a usage note on this topic: "By convention, 12 AM denotes midnight and 12 PM denotes noon. Because of the potential for confusion, it is advisable to use 12 noon and 12 midnight."