Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

6:45am.   Good news, I think.  I logged onto USAA and my Social Security and all of my pensions are in blue ink and the Description has changed, automatically, on each to “Retirement Income”.  I hope that means the money is now available for my use.  This time it took only 2 business days but I can understand why some people might consider it to be 3.  To summarize, 3 of my 4 sources of income first appeared on Thursday and all of the money was available on Saturday.

I got an email message from PayPal “We were unable to process your recent payment.  Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?”  The last PayPal payment I made was on Sunday, January 27^th to settle my hotel bill.  I don’t think I have made any other payments using PayPal since then.  It gave me a link to click on but of course it’s safer to go to PayPal directly.  When I did it appeared that they wanted me to update my address and telephone number.  But when I started that process they made it clear that if you have moved out of the country you have to set up a new account in the new country so I just closed my existing PayPal account.

Right after breakfast Reina and I went to Viva! Mall and I took 720,000 pesos out of the Davivienda ATM on my first try.  The only mistake I made is I pushed the wrong button at the end and didn’t get a receipt.

Then we went to Exito and bought some more food and I successfully used my USAA debit card again for the purchase. Yeah!  

After lunch Reina got her hair blow-dried professionally, we went back to Viva! and withdrew some more money, then went to Exito and bought a microwave oven that’s on sale and a few other things.  BTW, where she got her hair dried she said a 1 hour massage costs $20.

Then we took a taxi to her friend’s Evan and Judy’s house that are in the paper business and we hung out there for a while.

Then we went to Cousin Angela’s house, I paid back the 50mil we borrowed from her and we hung out there for a while.

Later at home Jesus came over and brought his girlfriend and we decided to go out for pizza.  We took a taxi and our first choice was obviously too crowded so we didn’t stop we just went further to another pizza place called Piccolo at Diagonal 75B #8-18.  I told them they could order any kind of pizza as long as it didn’t have pescado (fish).  I think we had the Carne Especiale because it had every type of meat on it imaginable.  It was actually called Pizza Milenium Carnes Y Tocineta.  But it was tasty and had a good crust like a Chicago thin crust pizza.

After that we went to a lounge in Laureles.  I think it was called Melodia Para Dos (Music for Two?).  It was kind of a sing along type place as there were a lot of women there singing to each song.  We stayed until about 12:30.  I paid for the taxi ride to the pizza place and the pizza and drinks (84mil) and Jesus paid for the taxi to the bar and for all the drinks.