Happy Birthday
Jeannie! Today is my daughter’s 26th
birthday.
Even though I got up 3
times during the night I was asleep the rest of the time so I got up at 7:45 feeling
pretty good.
When I checked the MBE
website I discovered that when I used Internet Explorer it automatically
translated the site to English. The SNES
status is still the same.
I brought Tony inside
and he sat well for a couple dog biscuits.
The only problem is his lack of patience because he lunges to get it
when I finally offer it to him.
We left the finca at
10:15. The plan, as I understood it, was
to go to Los Molinos where I would get a haircut and I understood Teresa wanted
to have her hair colored. I also wanted
to print a letter I had written to MBE.
We also wanted to pick up a few things at Exito and Home Center
We got past the killer
dogs undetected.
While waiting for a bus
a cement truck came by and slowly climbed the hill. The following cars crawled past us and a
pickup truck stopped in front of us.
Teresa talked to the driver and then opened the side door. We got in so I assumed this was another
example of a cash ride. Teresa was
talking to the man and I only heard a few words I understood like wife,
daughter, and no money. We were on the
highway when he pulled to the side, stopped and turned off the engine. He got out and opened the hood and started
fiddling with something. I took that
opportunity to tell Teresa that I only had a 10mil bill – not the 6mil exact
change like usual. She told me that he
wasn’t charging us for the ride. He came
back in the cab, showed Teresa a small metal part, started the engine and we
were off once again. A few minutes later
he turned off onto a side road and drove through Itagui Itagui
and they both said Santa Maria 80th Avenue
While stopped in traffic
a block from the mall I noticed an internet café advertising copying and
printing so I paid the driver 8mil and we got out. I told the young lady working there that I
want to print one page in black and white from a file on my flash drive. I was standing outside the gated door while
she put the flash drive into a computer.
She asked me something, probably the name of the file, and all I could
remember was MBE. I asked permission to
come in and quickly showed her the correct file – Super Nintendo Entertainment
System. She printed it and charged me
200 pesos.
We walked over to Los
Molinos and first I took some more cash out of an ATM. It was 20 minutes to noon and I was afraid my
barber, Juan Royas, might go to lunch soon so that was our first stop. He was free and gave me a haircut and I was
done by 10 minutes after noon. Teresa
was getting a pedicure and she told me she would be at least another hour. I told her I would come back in an hour.
On my way upstairs I saw
a small ferris wheel for children called a “rueda de Chicago”. Of course that caught my eye since I’m from
the Chicago area and I know that the first
Ferris wheel was erected in Chicago
Upstairs in the food
court I had a strawberry juice for 4,400 and read my Nook book for about an
hour.
Back downstairs I saw
Teresa having her hair trimmed by Juan Royas.
Ten minutes later she finished and I paid 53mil for her work.
We went upstairs where
we each had the Frischuleta and a juice from Frisby for 40,400. Teresa
talked to Laura and told her she would bring her a hamburger.
Teresa told me she
decided the appointment for my prostate was more important than shopping at
Exito or Home Center
We walked outside Los
Molinos and across the street she noticed one of those ladies sitting on the
street corner who allow you to use one of their phones for a fee. She talked to her and the lady sent us a
couple doors down to an internet café where she made a call. She was on the phone for about 15 minutes and
I understood we didn’t need to go to Envigado anymore. That only cost 300 pesos. I understand Teresa can call a number
tomorrow to make a doctor’s appointment for me.
We went back into Exito
in Los Molinos where we bought a couple boxes of cereal, a container for bread,
butter, nail polish, superglue and a piece of cake for Laura for 66,980.
We walked back down to
Avenida 80 where we caught a cash ride to Aquacatala. We only had to wait 5 minutes for an express
bus back to the finca. As we got even
with the neighbor’s the killer dogs heard us and started barking but the
Doberman didn’t come out.
We were back at the
finca by 5pm.
I took a photo of my
letter to MBE using my ipad and emailed it to myself. When I went to the MBE website I was
pleasantly surprised to see that the SNES package was marked as being “In
Transit” so my printing the letter was apparently unnecessary.
Yesterday I gave Laura
120mil to pay the quarterly tax bill “Municipo de Caldas - Impuesto Predial
Unificado” of 118,941. At 7pm she came
back with the stamped receipt.
The Bears are supposed
to be playing Dallas
Teresa put Luna in the
shed and she wanted to put Paluche there also but he would approach us but not
let us get close enough to grab him. I
got a dog biscuit to entice him and when he started eating it I grabbed him. He struggled a lot and even reached back a
couple times and put his teeth on my arm but he didn’t bite down. He ended up getting away anyway.
I took my sleeping pill
at 10pm and we went to bed at 11pm.
T-shirt of the day: Exercise #427: The Donut Curl (Simpson t-shirt)
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